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MLAs seek amnesty for illegal constructions
House adopts resolution, wants Abhay to quit IOA
Haryana CM, ministers’ salary up 60%; MLAs’ 54% |
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Relief for displaced Sikh families
Brahmins, Rajputs to get quota benefits: Hooda
Bill to regularise illegal colonies passed
Plots sold on forged GPA in Ambala, four held
Cong ex-minister Madaan joins INLD
Faridabad witnesses all-round growth, says Hooda
Kanda alleges bungling in Sirsa MC
Infant’s death: Kin block road
Teacher held for boy’s death
Illegal dental clinics raided, one held
Bodies of woman, son recovered
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MLAs seek amnesty for illegal constructions
Chandigarh, September 11 Rao Dharampal wanted the extension of “lal dora” in villages and the approval of the building plans of buildings outside “lal dora” by the municipalities for the convenience of the people. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda assured the members that the state government would consider the proposal to frame a "Common Compounding Policy” for illegal structures. Meanwhile, on the last day of its session, the Vidhan Sabha today passed following Bills: Improvement Trusts
The Haryana Town Improvement (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2013 will enable the government to merge 22 improvement trusts in the municipalities concerned for rapid, integrated and systematic development of cities. Depositors’
interests
The Vidhan Sabha passed the Haryana Protection of Interest of Depositors in Financial Establishments Bill 2013 to improve regulatory coordination and consequently protect the interests of the depositors. There are 88 registered Non-Banking Financial Corporations in the state. Meerpur varsity
The Vidhan Sabha passed Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur, (Rewari) Bill 2013. Hooda had announced on April 25, 2013, that Indira Gandhi Postgraduate Regional Centre, Meerpur, would be upgraded as Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur. Societies Act
The Vidhan Sabha passed the Haryana Registration and Regulation of Societies (Amendment) Bill 2013.The Haryana Registration and Regulation of Societies Act 2012 was notified on March 28, 2012. During the initial period of the Act and the Rules made thereunder, feedback has been received from various stakeholders pointing out the difficulties being faced at various levels in their implementation. Eco-friendly colonies
The Assembly passed the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas (Second Amendment) Bill 2013. The term "colony" has been defined in the Act to include "Low Density Eco-Friendly" colony in its purview. Being a new category of colony, enabling provisions in the Act has been made. Prisoners
The Vidhan Sabha passed the Haryana Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Amendment Bill 2013. The Haryana Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Amendment Act 2012 was notified on October 1, 2012, in order to prevent the commission of crimes during the period of parole or furlough and to reduce or eliminate the possibility of absconding during parole or furlough. The Criminal Law Amendment Act 2013 has been enforced providing various provisions of punishment in respect of rape cases, which needed to be included in the definition of hardcore prisoners. Motor Vehicle Act
The Vidhan Sabha passed the Haryana Motor Vehicles Taxation Bill 2013. The new Act will consolidate the existing Law and replace the existing Punjab Motor Vehicles Taxation Act 1924. Panchayati Raj
The Assembly passed the Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Bill 2013. The new amended Bill will provide the manner and procedure of apportionment of assets and liabilities between the bifurcating Gram Panchayats to reduce litigation. Cattle fairs
The Haryana Cattle Fairs (Amendment) Bill 2013 has been passed to put a ban on the sale and purchase of elephants in the cattle fairs. Canal Bill
The Vidhan Sabha also passed the Haryana Canal and Drainage (Amendment) Bill 2013. Key Bills
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House adopts resolution, wants Abhay to quit IOA
Chandigarh, September 11 In a resolution moved by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala and adopted by the House in the absence of the Opposition, the members called upon the Union Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs to immediately implement the ‘model sports code’ in the IOA and sports federations and bodies of the country to ensure India’s participation in all international events. The House also welcomed the decision of the IOC to include wrestling in the 2020 Olympics. Tainted politicians-cum-sports administrators, the resolution said, had put a question mark on the sporting career of budding players of the country by converting the national sports federations into their “personal fiefdoms”. Stating that Chautala had “bulldozed” his way into the
IOA, the resolution said this was done even when he stood charge-sheeted under the Prevention of Corruption Act by a Special CBI court in New Delhi. In an impassioned speech on the resolution, Hooda said the Haryana Assembly was “forced” to take up the resolution since “a member of the House had become an obstruction in the realisation of dreams” of players looking forward to representing India in the Olympics. “First, the decision of not including wrestling in the 2020 Olympics weighed heavy on the minds of the players. Now when that is out of the way, the IOC has laid down a condition that the IOA must remove tainted officials to enable Indian players to participate in the Olympics. There is resentment among players over this decision. Some MLAs have told me that if Abhay Chautala does not quit the
IOA, players from the state would protest against him,” he said. Claiming the “arrival” of Chautala on the sports scene as “a misuse of power”, since it coincided with the INLD’s coming to power, Hooda said: “We were, in fact, looking forward to bidding for holding the Olympics in the country, but the irregularities in the Commonwealth Games have put us out of contention for this prestigious event.” Legislators Aftab Ahmed, Sampat Singh, Naresh Sharma, Anand Singh Dangi were among those who urged the government to create pressure on Chautala to step down in the interest of players. |
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Haryana CM, ministers’ salary up 60%; MLAs’ 54%
While the salary and allowances of the Chief Minister, ministers, Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Leader of the Opposition went up by about 60 per cent, the increase for the MLAs was around 54 per cent. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala while moving the three Bills cited “rise in the cost of living” as the reason for the increase in salary. Post-hike, the salaries of the Chief Minister, ministers, ministers of state, Speaker. Deputy Speaker and the Leader of the Opposition will increase from Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 a month. An MLA will be entitled to a salary of Rs 30,000 a month, up from Rs 20,000. The constituency allowance of MLAs would go up to Rs 30,000 from Rs 20,000, office allowance to Rs 10,000 from Rs 5,000 and telephone allowance to Rs 15,000 from Rs 10,000. The CM, ministers, Speaker, Deputy Speaker and the Leader of the Opposition would get a monthly salary of Rs 1.05 lakh while MLAs would draw Rs 85,000 a month. However, apart from the salaries, CM, ministers, Speaker, Deputy Speaker and the Leader of the Opposition are entitled to perquisites such as free travel and rent-free accommodation. The INLD came down heavily on the hike and termed it “selfish”. “While the Hooda Government had cited financial crunch for not increasing the salaries of government staff and non-payment of bonus to farmers, the substantial hike in legislators’ salaries and allowances defies logic,” INLD MLA Abhay Chautala alleged.
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Relief for displaced Sikh families
Karah Sahib (Pehowa), September 11 The village burst into celebrations with the members of the uprooted Sikh families greeting each other. The Bill would benefit about 3,500 Sikh families in Kurukshetra and Kaithal who were displaced from the lands cultivated by them for the past six decades after the 20-year lease expired and they also lost the legal battle. Terming the decision “justice for mankind”, the former Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities and former member, National Human Rights Commission, Tarlochan Singh who fought for the plight of the Sikh families, thanked the government for saving the lives of the Sikh families and also the SGPC and DSGMC for their support. Welcoming the decision, Singh said, "The decision is historic in the way that it has come at the right time and without any violence and relief is adequate. We are thankful to the state government”. Senior vice-president of the SGPC Raghubir Singh Virk said, “It would have been better, had the government showed concern a bit earlier as a large number of villagers are sick today due to the apathy of the government which led to delay but better late than never”. President of the Pehowa Gula Abadkar Pattedar Kisan Joint Action Committee Harpal Singh Chika thanked Bhupinder Singh Hooda for the concern shown by him and coming to the aid of hapless families. These families were allotted land on lease for 20 years in 1952, which expired in 1972 and they were evicted from the forests and marshy lands, converted into fertile land by them. |
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Brahmins, Rajputs to get quota benefits: Hooda
Chandigarh, September 11 Hooda said this in a reply to an issue raised by MLA Venod Sharma regarding reservations being given to financially backward sections of the state during the ongoing session of Haryana Vidhan Sabha here today. Sharma also said no clear instructions had been issued regarding castes included for reservation benefit for the financially weaker sections of society and the need for categorically mentioning the castes that would benefit. He asked if the financially weaker sections of society only included Brahmins, Rajputs, Khatris and Mahajans of the general category or reservation benefit would also be given to the financially weaker people belonging to the Scheduled Castes, backward and special backward category who were availing the benefit of reservation. State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala said the Haryana Backward Classes Commission had recommended to give at least 10 per cent reservation to the financially weaker sections belonging to the general category in its fourth report submitted to the government on December 12, 2012. He said the benefit of reservation would only be given to the financially weaker sections of the general category as people belonging to the SC, Backward Classes and special backward classes were already getting benefit of reservation. Venod Sharma had asked the government whether or not on the lines of special backward category, 10 per cent reservation in the government jobs and admissions in educational institutes was also being given to the financially weaker sections of the general category. |
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Bill to regularise illegal colonies passed
Chandigarh, September 11 As per the Bill, the government would notify areas fulfilling the criteria as ‘civic amenities and infrastructure-deficient areas’.The main criteria for the declaration of such an area is that construction had taken place on more than 50% plots prior to June 30, 2009, and a resolution to this effect is passed by the municipality concerned and recommended by the competent authority concerned . Once an area is declared as ‘civic amenities and infrastructure-deficient municipal area’, the government may initiate action for providing essential services there. Further, the plots or buildings located in the declared area shall, subject to the payment of fee and fulfilment of terms and conditions, would be deemed to be
regularised. The government is committed to providing basic amenities like water supply,
sewerage, streetlights and roads to improve the living conditions of the inhabitants of such colonies, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said while moving the Bill. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Singh
Surjewala, however, informed the House that there were 1,340 such colonies out of which 542 colonies were proposed to be
regularised.However, there is interim stay on the regularisation of the colonies in the state, he added. Intervening in the discussion, Hooda said the provision of civic amenties to residents would go a long way in creating hygienic conditions in the areas. He, however, parried questions on whether the state government was trying to circumvent legal process by bringing in the legislation as the matter was still pending in the high court. Vidhan Sabha
vs judiciary
The passage of the Bill has come at time when the matter regarding the regularisation of illegal colonies is under litigation inthe Punjab and Haryana High Court. Though the Parliamentary Affairs Minister conceded that there was interim stay on the regularisation of illegal colonies, the Chief Minister refused comment on the issue. |
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JBT SCAM
New Delhi, September 11 “Suppose these people are given power once again, will they say: Look gentlemen, I suffer from all these diseases, so I don’t want to run the government,” a Bench comprising Justices HL Dattu and SJ Mukhopadhaya asked Chautala’s senior counsel UU Lalit who sought considerable relief for his client on health grounds. Chautala had come to the SC challenging the Delhi High Court order directing him to surrender to the Tihar Jail authorities by September 17. He has been on bail since May 21 when he was allowed by the HC to have a pacemaker implanted on his heart. Refusing to give him any substantial relief, the SC extended the bail by six days and ordered him to surrender on September 23 “without fail.” When Lalit contended that the HC verdict on Chautala’s appeal against his conviction and sentence was expected soon as arguments had already concluded and as such extending his bail for some more time would not make much of a difference. At this, the SC Bench wanted to know as to how the convict managed to expedite the proceedings in the HC. Pointing out that the trial court verdict had come on January 22, 2013, and the appeal was filed in the HC on February 7, the apex court said this showed that the appeal had been “fast-tracked” and arguments completed in six months, including the month-long summer vacation. On the other hand, appeals against death sentences had been pending in the SC since 2005. Instances like the fast-track proceedings in the HC made the “poor and unknown” litigants feel that the judicial system cared only for the affluent and those in positions of power, the apex court lamented. Chautala’s counsel gave a long list of ailments being suffered by his client, including osteoporosis, arthritis, tuberculosis and complications arising from polio, besides the heart condition and some pulmonary problems and morbidity. Unconvinced, the Bench said the private hospital in Gurgaon which had prepared the medical report perhaps used the high-sounding medical jargons, going by the status of the patient. The medical report by a team of AIIMS doctors had clearly stated that he did not require hospitalisation any longer, the SC pointed out. If such pleas were accepted, then jails were supposed to be only for healthy people, the Bench said. “Today, you are a convict. Your place is in Tihar Jail,” the Bench said. Nevertheless, it directed the jail authorities to give him “proper, effective, efficient and expert medical assistance, if required.” Chautala is serving a 10-year sentence for committing irregularities in the appointment of 3,032 JBT teachers in 1999-2000 when he was the CM. |
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Plots sold on forged GPA in Ambala, four held
Ambala, September 11 About seven years back, some local property dealers sold plots in various parts of the district on the basis of a GPA which was shown to have been made from Thatipur ‘tehsil’ in Gwalior district. The accused had bought the land from local farmers and sold it to investors without getting it registered in their name, causing huge losses to the state exchequer. Not only the deals were got registered by the Revenue Department, but the mutations were also carried out. However, the fact that the GPA on the basis of which the deals were registered was forged, leading to cancellation of the registries and mutations, causing losses to 281 persons. As the matter came to light, a vigilance probe was marked into the deals and the authorities imposed a ban on any further registration of land deals on the basis of the ‘Thatipur GPA’. All signatures and stamps which the GPA carried were later found to be forged. The Vigilance Bureau has already arrested four persons and the matter is under investigation. Those arrested included Arum Kumar, Arvinder, Suresh and Gautam. It was also learnt that the accused had also sold more than 600 plots in Kurukshetra, Karnal and Kaithal. Local BJP MLA Anil Vij said it was beyond comprehension as to how revenue officials went on registering more than 280 plots in the district without verifying the authenticity of the GPA. He said the involvement of the revenue officials in the scam could not be ruled out. Meanwhile, the buyers, who had no knowledge that the GPA on the basis of which the land deals were being registered was fake, rued that they had lost lakhs of rupees to property dealers. They said it was for the revenue officials to make sure that the registries were being done on the basis of the genuine documents. “How could we know that the land deals were illegal when proper registries were being done by the revenue officials. Now how can we recover the money that we had paid to the property dealers,” said a plot owner. |
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MLAs’ suspension dictatorial act: Abhay
Karnal, September 11 Talking to mediapersons here today, Abhay said the INLD members had given notices for raising about 200 issues in the Assembly, including 13 call attention motions. But unfortunately, all party MLAs were suspended for the entire session. Stating that he would release more CDs of the CLU (change of land use) scam, Abhay said during the past eight years, the CLU had been given for 22,000 acres, which appears to be a mega scam. Meanwhile, demanding a high-level judicial inquiry into the scam,INLD workers today took out a procession and burnt an effigy of the Chief Minister outside the Mini Secretariat here. INLD workers burn CM's effigy
Kaithal: Hundreds of INLD workers led by Kalayat MLA Ram Pal Majra held a procession here today and demanded an independent inquiry into money for change of land use (CLU). The protesters reached the Mini Secretariat in a procession and burnt an effigy of the Chief Minister. They handed over a memorandum in support of their demands to DC NK Solanki. Addressing party workers, Majra said the Chief Minister wanted to shield his corrupt party leaders who were making money through their role in land deals. |
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Cong ex-minister Madaan joins INLD
Kaithal, September 11 Refuting the allegations levelled by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda that the Chautala family had grabbed land in the name of the Chaudhry Devi Lal Trust, he offered to give back any land to the government if it had any proof of any illegal thing done in the name of his grandfather's trust. He was addressing a press conference at the residence of former Haryana minister Surinder Kumar Madaan who joined the INLD today. Madaan was a minister in the Bhajan Lal Cabinet in nineties. Abhay listed the properties in the name of the trust and explained how they had been bought and used. A coaching centre was built in Chandigarh to help poor students who came to that city for coaching of IAS and other services. He added that the doors of the centre were open to any poor student. The leader said the trust had bought the Delhi plot by paying its price. |
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Faridabad witnesses all-round growth, says Hooda
Chandigarh, September 11 The Chief Minister was replying to a question in the Vidhan Sabha here. Hooda said he had been closely associated with Faridabad and people were now quite satisfied with the development of the area. “It is the present state government which has undertaken various development works to ensure it’s all-round development so as to save it from the verge of extinction,” he added. Earlier, MLA Anand Kaushik alleged though hundreds of crores of rupees had been spent on the development of Faridabad and certain problems, including the problem of water logging, were putting residents to inconvenience. |
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Kanda alleges bungling in Sirsa MC
Chandigarh, September 11 Submitting a list of demands of his constituency, Kanda alleged that the president and vice-president of the committee had frittered away about Rs 30 crore on laying and re-laying the same roads. Taking note of the allegations, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda promptly marked an inquiry into the matter by the Additional Director, Urban Local Bodies Department Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala announced that the Power Department would file a petition with the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission to review the abolition of the slab system in power tariff. The consumers were currently being charged the highest rate slab for consumption of over 800 units. |
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Infant’s death: Kin block road
Rewari, September 11 After receiving the particulars of the preliminary treatment that was given to the infant, the protesters lifted the blockade
that remained in force for about an hour. They met SP Pankaj Nain and sought registration of a criminal case against doctors of the nursing home. The girl was admitted to Kamla Nursing Home here on September 4 after she developed polio symptoms. However, when her condition deteriorated owing to the alleged apathetic treatment of the hospital staff, she was taken to the PGIMS, Rohtak, on September 8, where she died the next day. While the police was investigating the matter, Dr Narnder Yadav, Director, Kamla Nursing Home, has rebutted the allegations levelled by the family of the deceased. |
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Teacher held for boy’s death
Fatehabad, September 11 Earlier, an inquiry committee headed by District Education Officer Asha Grover had found Mohan Lal and head teacher of the primary wing of the school Harish Kumar guilty for the incident and the
District Elementary Education Officer had suspended them. Gurpreet Singh, a class VIII student of Government High School at Bharolanwali in Fatehabad, died when he
fell from the tree he was pruning on his teachers’ directions. Gurpreet’s parents had alleged that their son died due to the negligence of the teachers who had asked him to climb. The deceased he fell on the ground and fractured his neck. He died on
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Illegal dental clinics raided, one held
Gurgaon, September 11 They have been charged under Sections 420 and 336 of the IPC, Sections 15 (2) and 15 (3) of the Indian Medical Council Act and Section 18 (a) and 18 (c) of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. |
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Bodies of woman, son recovered
Fatehabad, September 11 Murti, a resident of Jandli Kalan in this district, had jumped in the canal with her son after an altercation with her husband. The police today sent the bodies to a hospital for a postmortem. |
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