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Cong bigwigs concerned about Durga Nagpal, silent on Khemka
Many in race for Cong nomination from Fatehabad Assembly seat
Listen to 'marginalised people' before formulating policies
State govt under fire for not paying attention to project
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KU prof bags major research project
Sonepat school wins scouts, guides award
Differently abled set new example before us: DC
Sirsa village farmer to take part in global workshop
Upcoming Kaithal polytechnic to be expanded
VC puts emphasis on entrepreneurship
Women commandoes give self-defence training to girls
Rice millers assn elects office-bearers, debunks parallel body
Using arms licences, Dalit youths get jobs as guards
No water meters: Pay double tariff
Two lakh poor families in rural areas of state to own houses
Karnal jail inmates get ATM facility
Kurukshetra police launches checking campaign
MNREGA 'lifeline' for rural population
Jind roads lie battered
Wrestler Virender wins gold in Deaf and Dumb Olympics
First nodal centre for hepatitis C comes up at Rohtak PGIMS
Education priority for Hooda govt: Gillankhera
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Cong bigwigs concerned about Durga Nagpal, silent on Khemka
Gurgaon, August 12 However, no Congressman has dared to back senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka who has alleged glaring irregularities in state land deals, including one involving Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra. After resonating in the Haryana capital and other power centres for long, the issue was raised in Parliament today. The entire Haryana Opposition has also been crying hoarse for a high-level probe into the "shady" land deal involving Vadra. While the BJP and the INLD have sought cancellation of the "shady" land deal(s) and a high-level inquiry into the matter, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has even invited Khemka to contest election against Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. However, the in-house (within Congress) detractors of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, including Union Minister Selja, Rajya Sabha member Birender Singh and Lok Sabha MP Rao Inderjit, have chosen to remain silent on the issue. Curiously, all these vocal critics of the Haryana Chief Minister who generally look for an opportunity to attack Hooda and blast him on the slightest pretext, have distanced themselves from the issue due to obvious reasons. On being questioned about his stance on Khemka's report in a recent media interaction, Birender Singh said he could not comment on the matter as he had not seen the report. This despite the fact that the contents of the report have been shown by the media umpteen times. According to political observers, the calculated silence of these leaders may seem to be politically correct for the time being, but their inability to air their stance may not go down well with their supporters in the long run, especially in case they plan to quit the party.
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Many in race for Cong nomination from Fatehabad Assembly seat
Fatehabad, August 12
Dura Ram represented Fatehabad in the state Assembly from 2005 to 2009 as a Congress MLA and in the 2009 elections, too, he was fielded by the Congress, though he lost the electoral battle to an Independent, Prahlad Singh Gillankhera. Before this, Dura Ram was Congress nominee in a bypoll for Fatehabad seat held in May 2003. Gillankhera, who, as an Independent defeated Dura Ram in 2009 and became Chief Parliamentary Secretary in the Haryana Government, is the frontrunner in the race for Congress ticket for the 2014 Assembly poll. Besides having the advantage of a sitting MLA (though not of the ruling party), Gillankhera has the benefits of his contacts in the ruling party. His cousin, Sunil Jakhar, is Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly. A former activist of the erstwhile Haryana Vikas Party, headed by former Chief Minister Bansi Lal, Gillankhera was very close to former minister Surender Singh. Before 2009 polls, Gillankhera owed his allegiance to a faction in the Congress headed by Kiran Choudhry. However, after winning the Fatehabad seat as an Independent, Prahlad Singh Gillankhera switched loyalties and has since been with the Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Given his clout in the party, Gillankhera is being considered the first choice of the party from Fatehabad. Tek Chand Midha, president of the Fatehabad (Urban) unit of the Congress, is another formidable claimant for the ticket. Midha has been associated with a number of social and religious organisations of the town and has a good following in the Punjabi community. Midha’s claim is based on the plea that Fatehabad has predominantly been a Punjabi seat because since 1980, no non-Punjabi candidate could win this seat on Congress ticket before Dura Ram broke this myth in 2005. Even before 1980, Gobind Rai Batra, a prominent leader of the Punjabi community, represented this seat in 1967. A close associate of Dura Ram for years, Midha decided to stay back in the Congress even after his mentor decided to join the Haryana Janhit Congress. However, the demography of the Fatehabad Assembly seat has undergone a sea change after the 2005 elections and now several Jat-dominated villages have been included in it in place of Sikh, Punjabi and Kamboj-dominated areas that have gone with the Ratia Assembly segment. Krishna Punia and Dr Virender Siwach are two other Jat leaders besides Gillankhera who are staking
Krishna Punia was a longtime supporter of Om Prakash Chautala’s Indian National Lok
Dal, but she bid goodbye to her old party during the Ellenabad bypoll in 2010 to join the Congress. Dr
Siwach, on the other hand, was a frontrunner for the Congress ticket in the 2003 bypoll before the then HPCC president Bhajan Lal decided to give the party ticket to his nephew, Dura Ram. This time, Dr Siwach has announced that he will definitely contest the 2014 election. Both Krishna Punia and Dr Virender Siwach enjoy close relations with Sirsa MP Dr Ashok
Tanwar.
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Listen to 'marginalised people' before formulating policies
Sonepat, August 12 She was delivering Commencement Lecture of the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, OP Jindal Global University. She said there was a gulf between promise and performance, between policies and practice. “We need to make policy-making more inclusive and empowering. Dr Hameed said as practitioners of public policy, gender was embedded in every moment of policy making. “Women from tribal/vulnerable communities, religious minorities, women suffering from HIV/AIDS, women living in regions of insecurity are the most excluded and we need to reach out to them,” she pointed out. Dr Hameed welcomed the vision of the public policy school, described by Dean Sudarshan Ramaswamy as creating practitioners, not narrow technocrats, capable of designing policies by listening to people who were meant to benefit from policies. Prof C Raj Kumar, VC, OP Jindal Global University, welcomed the students and impressed upon them the importance of “excellence” in every pursuit of academic life. The students joining the four academic streams in the university — public policy, business, international affairs and law — participated in the Commencement Ceremony.
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State govt under fire for not paying attention to project
Gurgaon, August 12 Having been accused of "indifference" to development of railway line and irrigation canal in these backwaters, the state government has now come under fire for not going ahead with the development of Kotla lake while the work at its Kurukshtera and Kaithal counterparts is in full swing. It was in May this year that the state government approved and notified its plans to develop Kotla lake in Mewat, Ootu in Kurukshtera and Bibi Pur in Kaithal as natural water reservoirs. The plan aimed at spending around Rs 122 crore to transform this natural water lake in the district’s life line for solving drinking and irrigation water-scarcity issues. Ironically while Kotla has so far not got a single penny, around 46 crores have already been spent on Ootu project and around 20 crores on Bibipur lake. The residents who had sought the details of this expenditure through the RTI Act have blamed the government for ignoring them due to political reasons. “The Kotla lake has long been an election promise for us. The lake if developed with not only be a boon for our rain-fed agriculture but will also solve similar issues in nearby Gurgaon and areas of Rajasthan. The current government had, a few months back, raised our hopes by getting a go ahead from the Water Commission. The story, however, took the usual turn. While we are still waiting for money to trickle in and the project to start, the work is on in full swing at Kurukshtera and Kaithal. We are being ignored because we are a virtually "barren" district politically. They have political interests and aspirations and are out to appease the representatives of these areas, whereas our people continue to be ignored,” said Noordin Noor, president, Zila Parishad, Mewat.
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KU prof bags major research project
Dr Chauhan said here today that he would be the principal investigator of the MRP and the research study would be on the topic entitled “Impact of Power Sector Reforms on Efficiency, Economy and Social Accountability in Haryana’. The research team under his leadership will investigate power sector scenario in the state, particularly after 1997, when the state started reforms in the sector on the behest of the World Bank. The power sector is a crucial sector of the state economy, which determines the growth of all the three sectors comprising agriculture, industrial and services sector. The study will investigate the reasons why even after the state government’s drastic structural changes in this sector in the recent years in the areas of generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, the state is facing power crisis. The researcher will also look into the important factor of social accountability. “A comprehensive survey regarding consumer satisfaction, un-metered consumers, power theft and power complaints will be made,” Dr Chauhan said. — OC
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Sonepat school wins scouts, guides award
Sonepat, August 12 On behalf of the school, the award, instituted by Bharat Scouts and Guides, was received by the school Principal, Suresh Paliwal, from Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in a state-level programme held in Chandigarh recently. The chairman of the Gurukul Shiksha Parishad, Brig (retd) Satya Dev Singh, had congratulated the Principal and the students for receiving this award and hoped that they would contribute in a better way in such activities in the future. "This achievement will also be an inspiration for the new students,"
he added.
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Differently abled set new example before us: DC
Kaithal, August 12 The Deputy Commissioner handed over 136 tricycles, 50 hearing aids and 14 wheelchairs to needy persons here. He said the differently abled persons needed motivation and compassion by society. Such people with their hard work and dedication had shown a new vista to the world. They should live their lives with courage and zeal to overcome challenges and odds faced in day-to-ay life.They needed special care of society so that they could lead a normal life without any difficulty. District Red Cross Society secretary Anil Malik highlighted the social activities undertaken by the society from time to time. He said physical disability should not be seen as a curse. The Civil Surgeon, Dr Aditya Sarup Gupta, district revenue officer Rajbir Dhiman, Anil Malik and Dr Thukral were present on the occasion.
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Sirsa village farmer to take part in global workshop
Sirsa, August 12 Mann, who earlier participated in the BGRI world conference from September 1 to 4 last year in Beijing, will be one of the five Indian farmers attending the four-day technical workshop beginning in New Delhi from August 19 followed by a two-day field visit to the Directorate of Wheat Research (DWR), Flowerdale, Shimla. Suresh Vishwanath Patil, Pralhadrao Namdevrao Karad (both from Maharashtra), Ram Parkash (Karnal) and Jagjit Singh Hara(Ludhiana) are the other four farmers who will attend the workshop. President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the workshop while Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Panwar will deliver a special message in the event being organised in association with the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR). Mann said the BGRI, named after Green Revolution pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr Norman Bourlaug, has the overarching objective of systematically reducing the world’s vulnerability to stem, yellow, and leaf rusts of wheat and advocating and facilitating the evolution of a sustainable international system to contain the threat of wheat rusts and continue the enhancements in productivity required to withstand future global threats to wheat. Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation is funding the initiative. “If we look with India’s perspective, the present scenario of near stagnation in the matter of wheat production is not enough to cope with the increasing population, decreasing lands under plough, increasing affordability of food and rising input costs,” Mann said. Last year, Mann’s daughter Aman Mann, a budding biotechnologist, also participated in the BGRO world conference in Beijing as a delegate.
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Upcoming Kaithal polytechnic to be expanded
Kaithal, August 12 The institute was scheduled to have three blocks and a sum of Rs 80 crore was to be spent on it. However, under the revised plan, the polytechnic would have five blocks and another sum of Rs 155 crore would be spent on it.
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VC puts emphasis on entrepreneurship
Sonepat, August 12 The experts emphasised the need of fostering social innovation and entrepreneurship in the society. Around 165 delegates including 22 delegates from USA, Canada, France, Sri-Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Japan and Combodia are participating in the conference. In his inaugural address, Professor Emirates Dr GK Chadha, President, South Asian University, Delhi, called for a structural transformation in the Indian economy. He said the dependence of economy on the primary sector has to be lessened. Prof Chadha said micro financing was important to safeguard the economic interests of peasants, small traders, etc. He opined that micro financing would help in facilitating entrepreneurship in the society. He also released a book on Micro-finance and Micro-entrepreneurship, edited by Dr Surender Mor. Prof GK Chadha was the chief guest in the inaugural session of the conference and Prof Arvind Astha, Burgundy School of Business in France delivered the key note address. Prof Arvind Astha said social innovations were required to solve social problems. He said economists and entrepreneurs must work on innovative business models which would facilitate economic empowerment. Vice-Chancellor of the university Dr Pankaj Mittal said the concept of micro financing was gaining ground for economic development, especially in developing countries. She said entrepreneurship had become the need of the hour. Registrar Prof Asha Kadyan and the Chairperson of the department of Economics and Co-ordinator of the conference, Dr Surender Mor, also threw light on the theme of the conference. Pro Vice Chancellor Dr Balbir Kaur, DV Deshpande (NABARD), Prof David P Moxley, Prof RR Singh and other dignitaries, teachers and students were present on the occasion.
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Women commandoes give self-defence training to girls
Kurukshetra, August 12 District police chief Rakesh Kumar Arya said a 15 member police women commandoes from Madhuban gave training in self-defence to the girl students of Gita Girls Senior Secondary School, Kurukshetra, CK Modern High School, Pipli and Navodya Vidayalya, Nivarsi. Arya said keeping in view the increase in crime rate against women, on the directions of Haryana DGP Shriniwas Vashishth and under the guidance of Additional DGP Sheel Madhur, a 15 member police women commandoes team was constituted at the Haryana Police Academy, Madhuban. While imparting training at the premises of Gita Girls Senior Secondary School here, Assistant Sub Inspector Ramandeep Kaur explained about the women help line 1091 and the police control room number 100, on which women could call without any hesitation for telling their problems and lodging complaints, if any. The help lines would be attended by women police employees, she added. The women police commandoes team member, Sub Inspector Sunita advised them that they should not be scared of the criminals. In case of any problem, they should share the same with their parents and teachers and get the police help, she added. The school teachers also demanded that such type of training should be made a regular feature round the year. DSP Nirmal Singh, police post in-charge Sub Inspector Mahender Singh, Sadar Thana Thanesar SHO Narender Kumar and Ladwa Thana SHO Subhash Chander were also present on the occasion.
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Rice millers assn elects office-bearers, debunks parallel body
Karnal, August 12 The Haryana Rice Millers and Dealers Association, at its meeting held at Anmol Gardens here, unanimously elected Rajender Aggarwal and Jitender Kumar as president and general secretary, respectively, while Jaipal Jain will be the chief patron. Ashok Aggarwal has been elected treasurer of the association whereas Lala Sewa Ram would be the patron. Former president of the association, Azad Singh Rathee, said a few rice millers whose strength was less than five per cent of the total rice millers of Haryana, formed their own body that did not enjoy the support of rice millers. "More than 900 out of 1,000 rice millers are with us and are present here at the meeting," he claimed. He said the association stood united and the The newly elected president, Rajender Aggarwal, said a delegation of the association would soon meet the officers concerned of the FCI for release of holding charges amounting to Rs 50 crore.
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Using arms licences, Dalit youths get jobs as guards
Hisar, August 12 The Dalits living at a farmhouse near Hisar said the administration had asked them to get arms licences as they had been feeling insecure in view of the threats from jats who had torched their settlement in their village on April 21, 2010, which led to death of 70-year- old Tara Chand and his physically challenged daughter. Ravinder Kumar, son of Tara Chand, who had been living in the farmhouse along with his family said two of his brothers had got the licences. “My brothers got government jobs and they keep the licenced arms for personal security. While some other persons had been using the weapon licenses for getting private job. Besides ensuring personal security, they also get work and appropriate remuneration to feed their families,” he said. Rajat Kalsan, a counsel for Dalits, said around 30-40 youth had applied for the licences after the administration offered them to issue the same. “It came as a blessing in disguise as the licenses landed them jobs as private security guards. Around seven youths got jobs in a private security agency and they are getting around Rs 7,200 per month. But others are not as lucky and they too have been trying to get a job,” he said. He said most of them had acquired .12 bore gun, which is an affordable weapon for them. “While most of them are unskilled and work as daily wagers at construction sites, those getting job as guards have been getting a comparatively respectful salary,” he said. Those who got job as private guards said some of them even borrowed money from others to purchase weapons after getting the licence.A police spokesperson said the administration had issued the licences in view of a threat to them. “However, there have been no complaints of any misuse,” he added.
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No water meters: Pay double tariff
Gurgaon, August 12 This was stated at a meeting called by Deputy Commissioner Shekhar Vidyarthi to review the progress on implementation of Urban Water Policy-2012 of the Haryana Government here recently. The policy had been implemented with an aim to stop wastage of water in urban areas of the state. A notification of the Urban Water Policy was also issued on March 16, 2012. The consumers with non-metered water connections were asked to get meters installed and for this, one year's time from the date of notification was given. The officials concerned of the Public Health Engineering Department told the Deputy Commissioner that of the pending 9,569 non-metered water connections, 3,183 were from Sohna, 3,078 from Hailey Mandi, 2,851 from Pataudi and 457 from Farukhnagar.
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Two lakh poor families in rural areas of state to own houses
Sirsa, August 12 Haryana Government has implemented Rs 1,350 crore for Priyadarshini Awaas Yojana (PAY) to provide pucca houses to two lakh poor families living in the rural areas in the state. Each beneficiary selected under the scheme will get financial assistance of up to Rs 90,100. Additional Media Advisor to Haryana CM Sunil Parti, said more than 51,000 families have been identified so far and registered for the sanction of funds. The process of registration and sanction of funds to the listed beneficiaries is in full swing on the directions of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. He said the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) has been entrusted with the task of identifying the beneficiaries under the scheme. Each beneficiary will be given a financial assistance of Rs 81,000 by the Haryana Rural Development Agency (HRDA) for the construction of house. In addition, assistance of Rs 9,100 shall be provided to each beneficiary for the construction of sanitary in convergence with the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA). Parti said poor people's dream to have a house is being converted into reality through PAY, which is a demand-based 100 per cent state-funded scheme. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda himself had launched this programme by handing over sanction letters to beneficiaries in a state-level function held in Karnal in June this year. Approximately two lakh families are planned to be covered under PAY within a time span of two years (2013-14 and 2014-15). The entire amount will be given to the beneficiaries in three instalments i.e. Rs 25,000 in advance along with sanction letter, Rs 35,000 after construction of house up to lintel level and Rs 21,000 on putting doors and windows in the house. The PAY scheme aims at facilitating housing delivery in the rural areas to such eligible or identified families who are on the permanent waiting list of the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY). Those who have not been given the benefit, have been allotted 100 sq-yd-plots each under the Mahatma Gandhi Gramin Basti Yojana and those who do not have a kutcha house, have been identified. A grievance redressal mechanism will be put in place at the gram panchayat, block and district level.
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Karnal jail inmates get ATM facility
Karnal, August 12 Accounts of 1,100 prisoners had been opened in the Punjab National Bank branch while 200 prisoners had been connected to
the banking system through State bank of India, Jail Superintendent Sher Singh said.
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Kurukshetra police launches checking campaign
Kurukshetra, August 12 The district police chief, Rakesh Kumar Arya, has directed all the newly constituted seven teams comprising all the SHOs, in charges of PCRs, gypsies and the
motorcycle riders to intensify the patrolling and checking of suspicious persons, items
and vehicles. All the Station House Officers (SHOs) and in-charge of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) staff I and II have also been directed to erect naqas and besides screening the suspicious persons, they will check hotels, restaurants, dhabas, dharamshalas, bus stands and railway stations. The SHOs have been
asked to initiate necessary security measures for maintaining peace in his or her respective area. The CIA Staff, SHO Shahabad, SHO Sadar Thanesar and SHO Traffic Samani have been directed of keep a vigil on road side dhabas, hotels and restaurants. Arya has appealed all the owners of dhabas, hotels and restaurants not to allow any unidentified person to stay without checking his or her ID. He has appealed the public to inform the police immediately when a new watchman or domestic employee is employed or a house is
rented to a new tenant or a suspicious person lives in their neighbour. He asked the public to
park their vehicles only within the parking zones and follow the traffic rules. SHO Traffic Inspector Rajbir Singh’s team has checked about 2,000 vehicles during this month.
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MNREGA 'lifeline' for rural population
Rohtak, August 12 The camp was organised by DLSA and the Panchayat Department at DRDA hall for spreading awareness about MNREGA and permanent lok adalat. Gupta said the Act provided 100 days' guaranteed wage employment to every household in the district. On the process of applying for a job card under the said scheme, she said: "For obtaining employment, one has to submit a request application to his village sarpanch for registration. Thereafter a job card was given within 15 days of receipt of application and in case the application was left out owing to some reason, one would be entitled to a daily employment allowance at the rate prescribed by state government. She also said that in case of any dispute arising from the implementation of this Act, the panel of advocates and para legal volunteers could help the applicant in obtaining his/her due.
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Jind roads lie battered
Jind, August 12 A resident of a colony said the road connecting Safidon gate and Safidon road was used by heavy vehicles due to which the condition of the road became worse. The delay in laying of a sewerage line along the road had made the condition worse. Another resident claimed that all the main roads including the stretches connecting Rohtak to Bhiwani, Bhiwani to Hansi, Patiala Chowk to Hansi, Patiala Chowk to Main city, Railway Road, Apollo Road, Old Subzi Mandi to Safidon road, approach road and the mini bypass connecting the main bus stand had been lying in dilapidated condition. He said while the state government had announced several projects including the construction of roads and bypass worth Rs 1,300 crore in 2009 to smoothen the traffic movement, the work on majority of the projects were yet to start. The sources claimed that the delay in approval and start of the work on the bypass announced by the state government about four years ago, had made the things worse. Hundreds of buses of the Haryana Roadways use the roads of the residential areas of scheme number 5 and scheme number 6, thus, putting the life of the local residents at risk. Residents of some of the colonies not only resorted to road blockade in the past couple of days but also submitted a memorandum to the authorities concerned. When contacted Public Works Department (PWD) Executive Engineer Jaspal Mehra, he claimed that the estimates for various projects were under approval. He said rains have affected the road repair work and the department was trying to ensure that the repair work of all the main roads in the city and the Patiala Chowk road was likely to start soon.
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Wrestler Virender wins gold in Deaf and Dumb Olympics
Jhajjar, August 12 Virender has, earlier, also performed well in various international championships. He bagged silver medal in the 84-kg category of wrestling in the Deaf and Dumb Olympics-2009 held in Taipei, China. Similarly, he clinched a gold medal in the same Olympics held in Melbourne while he succeeded in getting a bronze medal in the World Deaf and Dumb Championship - 2008. On coming back to India after the event, Virender called on Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda at his residence in Delhi. Congratulating the talented wrestler, Hooda said he would be felicitated by the Haryana Government according to the Sports Policy of the state for bringing laurels to the state and the nation. The Chief Minister also asked him to continue working hard and bring a greater name to his family, state and country. “It is the outcome of the state's Sports Policy that Haryanavi players are persistently achieving positions by showing remarkable performance in international events,” said Hooda, adding that all possible sports facilities were being made available at the grassroots level to polish the talent of budding players. The Director-General of Sports and Youth Affairs Department, Haryana, Sudhir Rajpal, the Chairman, Haryana Tourism Corporation, Chakravarti Sharma, media adviser to Haryana Chief Minister Shiv Bhattia, Ramphal Maan, coach of Virender, Olympics players Pradeep Kumar and Ajay Kumar, Ajit Singh, father of Virender, special assistant Ram Mohan, village sarpanch Surender, chairman of the Panchyat Samiti Devender Jakhar and others were also present on the occasion.
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First nodal centre for hepatitis C comes up at Rohtak PGIMS
Rohtak, August 12 The Gastroenterology Department of the PGIMS here where the Nodal Centre has come up has treated almost 170 patients of hepatitis C in the past about two and a half years, claimed Dr Parveen Malhotra, Head of the department. He revealed that hepatitis C patients in Haryana were increasing. At least four districts of Kaithal, Fatehabad, Karnal and Jind in the state had been identified where the disease had already taken an epidemic form in several pockets and a majority of the patients hail from these pockets. Some of the villages of these areas were so chronic that 30 to 40 per cent of the population was affected by the disease. While the cost of treatment of one patient at present ranged from Rs 1.25 to 1.35 lakh at this centre, patients hailing from SC and BPL families were given treatment free of cost. The treatment could run for at least six months. Dr Malhotra said the Nodal Centre here would provide training to the doctors working in Civil Hospitals. This would help them in responding quickly to the suspected cases, which they could diagnose and provide treatment to the affected persons at the local level. He claimed while the success rate of treatment at the PGIMS was 97 per cent, it was much higher than the national average ranging between 50 and 70 per cent at present. While the cost of treatment here was at least 50 per cent lower than that of such facilities available in the private sectors, the diagnosis of the disease was still a challenge as there were no clear-cut symptoms till there was a blood test. Blaming the rampant use of unsafe syringes by the quacks in the rural areas, doctors claimed that spread of the disease was only through unsafe syringes, blood donation or through use of the same razor. A majority of the affected patients come to know about the problem after detailed tests only. There are around 60 patients who were undergoing treatment at the PGIMS at present. Saying that it was myth that the illness was incurable, he said this disease mainly affected the liver and could lead to permanent damage and development of hepatocellular carcinoma, if not treated in time. The Vice-Chancellor of Health University, Dr SS Sangwan, said the Nodal Centre would prove a milestone in containing the problem.
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Education priority for Hooda govt: Gillankhera
Fatehabad, August 12 Addressing a seminar on the state of education in the area organised by the Haryana Patrakar Sangh here, Gillankhera said besides this, Rs 400 crore had been reserved for higher education, Rs 322.20 crore for technical education and Rs 200 crore for industrial education. He said the state government was opening 36 model schools in backward blocks of Haryana and five Aarohi Model Schools were being set up in Fatehabad district alone at a cost of Rs 22.5 crore. He said with an aim to promote education among girls, easy education loans had been started where 5 per cent subsidy was being given on interest. He said as many as 19 lakh students in Haryana were getting scholarship, which, he said, was unprecedented in the entire country. Dr DK Kaushik, Principal of MM PG College, said 374 districts of the country had literacy rate of less than 14 per cent. He said the literacy rate in Fatehabad was also on the lower side. KB Pandit, state president, Sunil Sachdeva, state secretary, and Madan Bansal, district president of the sangh, were present.
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Top Congress leaders, including party president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, had expressed concern over the recent suspension of Uttar Pradesh officer Durga Shakti
Nagpal.
Differently abled people are an important part and parcel of our society and they can achieve any goal with their God-gifted abilities. This was stated by Deputy Commissioner-cum-President of the District Red Cross Society NK Solanki recently while giving away tricycles, hearing aids and wheelchairs to differently abled people at the local Indira Gandhi
Multi-Speciality Hospital here at a function organised by the District Red Cross Society.
Sonepat, August 12
Wrestler Virender Singh, a native of Chhachhrauli village here, has clinched a gold medal in the Deaf and Dumb Olympics-2013 held in Sofia (Bulgaria) recently. He achieved the position by defeating a wrestler of Turkey in the final match of the 74-kg weight category. As many as 31 players from across India participated in this global event.
Kurukshetra, August 12