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Over 25 injured in caste violence in Sirsa
Speaker calls meeting on security
INLD to corner govt on power issue
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One IAS, 42 HCS officers shifted
Notification issued on chowkidars’ honorarium
Dabwali shoe hurler acted out of frustration
Farmers want SEZ land back
Work with dedication, women doctors told
50 legal aid clinics ‘unable to help’ people
Jind development plan notified
17 injured in road mishap
Sanctuary to be community reserve
Ambala railway overbridge closed for repairs
Just 6 per cent candidates clear HTET
Recruitment on for 1,347 posts of constable
Brick-kiln worker held on rape charge
Board to build 50,000 houses for EWS
Hooda offers help to France
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Over 25 injured in caste violence in Sirsa
Sirsa, February 20 A heavy force has been deployed and the authorities have promulgated prohibitory orders in the area. Sources said some members of the two groups had clashed last night when some miscreants torn posters of Guru Ravi Dass. However, the police brought the situation under control and today, when a police Gypsy went to take some youths from both sides to the police station, the violence erupted again. Suddenly, some abusive language used by a youth triggered the clash and soon the situation worsened with both sides hurling stones at each other and it was free for all for the next almost three hours. Later, Deputy Commissioner J Ganesan and Senior Superintendent of Police Saurabh Singh went to the site and took control of the situation with the help of a heavy police force. The road was blocked from both sides and the police organised a flag march in the area. Saurabh Singh said a peace committee of local residents was formed and the two sides had promised to sink differences. Tension in Y’nagar village over damage to idols
Yamunanagar: Communal tension gripped Baniawala village located under the Khizrabad police station after members of the minor community allegedly damaged three idols in the village temple late last night. Sensing the gravity of the situation, two platoons of the police were deployed in the village. Besides, Deputy Superintendent of Police Suresh Kumar, Chhachhruali Tehsildar Mohinder Singh, Khizrabad SHO Sandeep Kumar and other senior officers reached there. The reason behind the dispute was reported to be a piece of land registered in the name of the temple. Villagers Ramjatan, Sulekh Chand, Pawan Kumar, Ramesh and Dharampal said priest Kalawati and members of the temple committee members got a fence erected on the land with the consent of people of the minority community yesterday. However, the fence was uprooted and idols were damaged allegedly by the members of the minority community late last night, they said. The villagers said members of the minority community wanted to take possession of the land. Superintendent of Police (SP) Shashank Anand said some members of the minority community wanted to build a community hall on the land. “In the records, the land belongs to the temple. Therefore, people of the minority community have been asked not to indulge in any kind of activity on the land,” the SP said. |
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Speaker calls meeting on security
Chandigarh, February 20 Speaker Kuldeep Sharma has called a security meeting before the House meets, besides an all-party meeting for smooth functioning of the Assembly. Sources said the frisking of MLAs had been ruled out since the idea had
not found favour with even Parliament. Police presence would be strengthened and those without passes would not be allowed near the Assembly. Sources maintain that the government is apprehensive that the Opposition may try to stall proceedings from the very beginning. The INLD has been demanding the registration of an FIR against Chief Parliamentary Secretary Ram Kishan Fauji in an alleged graft case and is expected to raise the issue in the House in a big way. INLD insiders expect its leadership to release all-new clippings of Congressmen in continuation of their cash-for CLU
scam “series” which has seen nine such “releases”, most of them coming hours before the monsoon session in September last year. The Congress will try to hit the INLD’s raw nerve by launching a counter-offensive on the indictment of its chief Om Prakash Chautala in the JBT recruitment scam. Since this is the last budget session, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is expected to dole out sops for various sections of society. Also, the budget session, probably one of the shortest ever, will conclude after six sittings on March 4, according to the tentative business schedule. Two days each have been set aside for discussion on the Governor’s Address and the Budget. However, the final call will be taken by the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) which meets tomorrow. Sources said that the Speaker’s office had received nine calling-attention notices shared between Congress MLA Sampat Singh and INLD’s Rampal Majra. These pertain to malnutrition, free of cost medicines at government
hospitals, resentment among government employees on contract and outsourcing, among others. As many as 14 Bills
will be moved in this session and the government will bring eight ordinances for approval. |
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INLD to corner govt on power issue
Chandigarh, February 20 A delegation of MLAs led by senior party leader and Ellenabad MLA Abhay Chautala submitted a memorandum to Governor Jaganath Pahadia here today. The memorandum states that the INLD had exposed Congressmen who were shown striking deals in exchange for CLUs . Terming the grant of CLU as a big scam, Chautala said that the Hooda government had granted CLUs for 22,000 acres. He said the INLD’s drive to create awareness of the misdeeds of the Congress would continue. Panipat: Apart from the cash-for-CLU scam, the INLD will corner the Hooda Government on the power issue. Alleging that the government had shut down most of thermal and hydro electricity units in the state to purchase power from several private companies to get “commission”, Israna INLD legislator Krishan Lal Panwar said he would raise the issue in the Assembly. “Most of the thermal units set up at Panipat, Hisar, Yamunanagar and Faridabad have been shut down in the name of “no demand”, whereas the state is reeling under undeclared power cuts.”
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One IAS, 42 HCS officers shifted
Chandigarh, February 20 Mahender Pal has been posted as Estate Officer, HUDA, Rohtak, and SDO (Civil), Beri, in place of Ashima Sangwan. Ajay Malik, Zonal Administrator, HSAMB, Gurgaon, has been posted as Joint Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Old Faridabad, in place of Inder Pal Bishnoi, who has been posted as Zonal Administrator, HSAMB, Gurgaon, and General Manager, Haryana Roadways, Gurgaon. Ashok Kumar Garg, ADC, Hisar, and Virender Lather, ADC,
Sonepat, will swap their place of postings. Mukesh Kumar Ahuja, ADC, Ambala, has been posted as Additional Director (Administration), Secondary Education. Aurbind Sharma, SDO (Civil), has been posted as ADC, Ambala, vice Mukesh Kumar Ahuja. Jitender Kumar, SDO (Civil), Ballabgarh, has been posted as SDO (Civil), Hathin, in place of Om Parkash, who has been posted as SDO (Civil), Gurgaon, vice Satyender Duhan, who goes as SDO (Civil), Jhajjar, in place of Pardeep Kumar-I, who has been posted as SDO (Civil), Bahadurgarh. Mukul Kumar, SDO (Civil), Karnal, has been posted as SDO (Civil), Ballabgarh, vice Jitender Kumar. Yashendra Singh, General Manager, Haryana Roadways, Gurgaon, has been posted as Secretary, RTA, Jhajjar, and Secretary, RTA, Rewari, vice Sushil Sarwan, who goes as SDO (Civil), Karnal. Dharamvir Singh, Secretary, Haryana School Teachers Selection Board, Panchkula, has been posted as SDO (Civil). Pratima Chaudhary, City Magistrate, Ambala, has been posted as Officer on Special Duty, CADA, Panchkula. Mukesh Kumar, SDO (Civil), Loharu, has been posted as SDO (Civil), Barwala. Surjit Singh, City Magistrate, Palwal, goes as City Magistrate, Fatehabad. While Ashwani Maingi has been posted as SDO (Civil), Bilaspur, in place Pooja Chanwaria, who goes as City Magistrate, Panchkula, vice Kamal Preet Kaur, who goes as City Magistrate, Ambala. Narinder Singh Yadav, Estate Officer, HUDA-II, Gurgaon has been posted as SDO (Civil), Bawal, in place of Yogesh Kumar Mehta, who goes as SDO (Civil), Hansi, in place of Narender Pal Malik, who goes as Secretary, RTA, Sirsa. Amarjit Singh has been posted as Deputy Secretary, Haryana Public Service Commission. Satbir Kundu, City Magistrate, Kurukshetra, has been posted as SDO (Civil), Samalkha, vice Vivek Chaudhary, who goes as City Magistrate, Jhajjar, in place of Satish Yadav, who has been posted as SDO (Civil), Mahendragarh. SC Gaba goes as Estate Officer, HUDA, Hisar, in place of Shalini Chetal, who has been posted as SDO (Civil), Fatehabad, in place of Baljeet Singh, who goes as City Magistrate,
Hisar, in place of Subhita Dhaka, who has been posted as City Magistrate,
Kurukshetra. Sanjay Rai, SDO (Civil), Beri, has been posted as SDO (Civil), Bhiwani, in place of Manjeet Singh, who goes as SDO (Civil), Sirsa. Sant Lal Pachar has been posted as SDO (Civil), Loharu. Subhash Sheoran, Secretary, RTA, Mahendragarh, has been posted as SDO (Civil), Ellenabad. Vikram Singh Malik, SDO (Civil), Assandh, has been posted as Secretary, RTA, Bhiwani, vice Subhash Sheoran. Bir Singh, Maanaging Director, Cooperative Sugar Mills, Rohtak, has been posted as SDO (Civil), Assandh. Pardeep Kumar-II, SDO (Civil), Bahadurgarh, has been posted as City Magistrate, Palwal. |
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removal of delhi-gurgaon toll plaza Tribune News Service
Gurgaon, February 20 Citing increased vehicular volume and unregulated speed, analysts and authorities have suggested designing of an expressway that would work with toll barrier. While the expressway has eight lanes, the three major roads that cater to the Delhi-bound traffic are four to six lane wide, which could result in bottlenecks at crucial points. “We expect the number of vehicles to go up by almost 20 per cent and a major increase in heavy commercial vehicles will be witnessed. The toll plaza had been a speed breaker for vehicles flowing in from Delhi and vice versa but now it will be a run-through for them. Vehicle breakdown on the expressway and accidents will be major problems and important exists like Rajiv Chowk will be choked due to unregulated vehicle flow," said an official of the Gurgaon traffic police. The Delhi police share the same concern and have already taken measures foreseeing the trouble. They have identified area like RTR Marg, Mehrauli-Badarpur road and Sardar Patel Marg as problematic. Besides, the Dhaula Kuan crossing and the Vasant Kunj-Mehrauli road are likely to prove a headache. N Ranganathan, a traffic expert, said the expressway had been designed keeping toll barriers in mind. In their absence, road design at major intersections would have to be altered in the long run, he said.
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Yellow rust attacks wheat crop in Sirsa
Sirsa, February 20 Wazir Singh, Deputy Director, Agriculture, Sirsa, said so far the disease had been detected on over 25 acres of land and added the Propiconazole, a fungicide used in the yellow rust was being distributed among farmers on 50 per cent subsidy. He said it was not possible for the department to survey all fields and they would be distributing fungicide as and when farmers approached them with the problem. Yellow rust, also called stripe rust, manifests as powdery yellow stripes on wheat leaves. “Temperature up to 23 degree Celsius and heavy humidity are highly conducive to the growth of the disease,” said Wazir Singh. Weather conditions conducive for disease
Karnal: With a sudden rise in temperature, the fungal disease has become a threat to the wheat crop. Dr Indu Sharma, Project Director of the Directorate of Wheat Research (DWR), said: “The prevailing weather conditions are conducive for the disease.” She said farmers were advised to monitor their crop till March 10. Dr Sharma said if farmers found disease symptoms, they should contact the nearest research centre or Agriculture Department office. Dr MS Saharan, Principal Scientist, DWR, said farmers were advised to check symptoms of the disease by touching the leaf with finger or white cloth and if yellow colour appeared then they should spray the crop with fungicide. |
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Notification issued on chowkidars’ honorarium
Chandigarh, February 20 An official spokesman said the chowkidars in villages falling under these corporations would get an honorarium of Rs 2,000 per month with effect from November 1, 2011, Rs 2,500 per month from April 1, 2013, Rs 3,500 per month from January 1, 2014, besides an uniform allowance of Rs 2,000 per annum and Rs 750 per annum as an allowance for lathi, battery and whistle. Housing board to build 50,000 houses for EWS
The Haryana Housing Board has launched a massive housing programme for the construction of 50,000 affordable houses for the economically weaker section (EWS), BPL and other categories over the next two years. Construction of about 30,000 houses has already started. A spokesman of the board said here today that the total cost of the project was likely to be over Rs 2,250 crore. The construction of 22,600 houses was in progress at Ambala City, Yamunanagar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Jind, Fatehabad, Ratia, Hansi, Tohana, Hisar, Sirsa, Sonepat, Barhi, Gurgaon, Narnaul, Rewari, Faridabad, Palwal, Sisoth, Jhajjar, Bahadurgarh and Rohtak. He said the registration for 6,892 houses had been floated recently, which included 1,506 houses for Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes at Dadri. About houses for the EWS and BPL categories , he said the houses would comprise two rooms with a 300 square feet covered area and cost about Rs 4.50 lakh per unit. |
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Dabwali shoe hurler acted out of frustration
Sirsa, February 20 The police said Raja Ram, a panchayat member from Nathusari village, hurled a shoe at Hooda to gain cheap publicity, but an application moved by him, which is presently with the District Development and Panchayat Officer (DDPO), reveals that he wanted action against 11 officials, including an IAS and an HCS officer. While he had complaints against some Panchayati Raj Department officials, he alleged that a senior administrative officer had stonewalled his complaint against a corrupt official in 2004. DDPO Kulbhushan Bansal confirmed that his office has received the application earlier this month from the ADC office. He, however, declined to comment further. The application reveals that the State Vigilance Bureau, on Raja Ram’s complaint, laid a trap to arrest a “corrupt” official red-handed on December 6, 2004. However, the then DC, for some reason, did not grant approval to the SVB’s plea for conducting the raid. In his complaint to the SVB, Raja Ram had alleged that the panchayat secretary had demanded Rs 10,000 as bribe for clearing each cheque meant for development works in the village, where Raja Ram’s wife Shakuntla was the sarpanch. Raja Ram has since been trying to take up the issue at various levels and on November 19, 2008, the police booked his wife Shakuntla for embezzling panchayat funds on the complaint of Block Development and Panchayat Officer. Recently, Raja Ram had demanded information under the RTI asking how much money has been spent in Chopta area from January 2011 to November 2013 under the MP Local Area Development funds.
The 787-page information is ready with the officials of the Panchayati Raj Department now. |
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Farmers want SEZ land back
Jhajjar, February 20 Farmers have approached the Jhajjar Deputy Collector by moving a petition in his court, demanding that the land should be either declared surplus or returned to its previous owners. The collector has fixed February 25 as the date of hearing. Dr Ram Kumar Dulina, a social activist, who is raising the issue on behalf of the farmers, told The Tribune that the initiative had been taken to fight a legal battle for ensuring justice to the farmers, who had lost their land in the name of development. “Around 7,700 acres in 22 villages of Jhajjar district were purchased by Reliance Industries to develop the SEZ in the region. Since the development project for which the land was bought is not in existence anymore, the farmers should be returned their land,” said Dulina. He further said farmers were ready to return the full compensation amount in lieu of their land. He maintained no company, in addition to special conditions, could purchase more than 18 acres as per the Haryana Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1972; therefore, the district collector can legally declare the land surplus. That was the demand being raised by the farmers in their petition, he added. Ram Kumar of Kukdola village, whose 42 acres was purchased by Reliance Industries in the name of the SEZ, said “We had given our land to Reliance Industries following its assurance of providing jobs to our children and generating other sources of employment, but nothing was done. We want our land back.” |
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Work with dedication, women doctors told
Sonepat, February 20 He said this while
inaugurating the first sports meet of BPS Government Women Medical College, Khanpur Kalan, here yesterday. He exhorted budding women doctors to discharge their duties with dedication and discourage social evils such as female foeticide. He praised the college for becoming a model institution in providing health facilities to the rural population and implementing the Mukhyamantri Muft Ilaaj Yojna. “Haryana is emerging as an education hub and sports power in the country because of inventive policies of the state government,” he said. College director Dr RC Siwach said the college hospital had provided free medicines to over three lakh people under the Mukhyamantri Muft Ilaaj Yojna since January. Earlier, the Chief Minister laid the foundation stone of an auditorium, to be constructed at a cost of Rs 60 crore with the seating capacity of 1,000 persons, at the college. |
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50 legal aid clinics ‘unable to help’ people
Karnal, February 20 Interacting with mediapersons here, she said there were six legal aid clinics in Karnal urban area, 40 in different villages and four in Assandh block. She said any citizen desirous of legal advice could personally visit these clinics. The clinics offer aid, including legal advice, drafting petitions, notices, replies, application and other documents. The clinics help in resolving disputes as well. “The Karnal District Legal Services Authority has a helpline no. 0184-2266138, which is functional from 10am to 5pm on all working days. The DLSA will organise the second national lok adalat on April 12,” she said. |
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‘Jharu Sandesh Yatra’ sweeps through Sirsa
Sirsa, February 20 Prahlad Singh Bharukhera, state committee member of AAP, Daljit Singh Sra, president of District Bar Association, Suresh Mehta, a former president of the District Bar Association, Ramesh Mehta, a municipal councillor, and several others participated in the yatra today. The yatra also went to the Housing Board Colony, Bansal Colony, Bata Colony, Shakti Nagar and some other residential areas of Sirsa to exhort the people to support AAP in the upcoming elections. Bharukhera said by giving the reins of power to honest persons, the people would actually vote for their own brighter future. Meanwhile, the party would organise its yatra at Fatehabad from tomorrow. Dharambir Kajla of the party said the party activists would gather at Ambedkar Park in the morning and move towards the Mini-Secretariat. |
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Jind development plan notified
Chandigarh, February 20 An official spokesman said here today that as
per the plan, the population of Jind city would be around 5,17,000 by the year 2031 and this Draft Development Plan had been prepared to provide basic facilities to them. He said as per
the plan, 1,745 hectares of area has been reserved as residential area, 209 hectares as commercial, 452 hectares as
industrial , 483 hectares for transportation system, 101 hectares for public utilities, 310 hectares
for public and semi-public services, 4,307 hectares for agriculture purpose and 565 hectares as
an open area. He said sectors would be developed in 1,745 hectares of land reserved as a residential area, which would be divided into 25 parts. VAT cut on scientific instruments
Haryana Excise and Taxation Minister Kiran Choudhry today announced to reduce value added tax on scientific instruments from 12.5 per cent to 5 per cent. |
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300 donate blood at HIMS
Kaithal, February 20 It was the 10th such camp organised by the college. District Red Cross Society and OBC sponsored the event. College MD GK Sethi inaugurated the camp and director DP Gupta presided over the event, in which 300 people donated blood. He highlighted the free medical services being provided by the institute to poor patients. The MD said HIMS had introduced a bus service from various locations in Kaithal to ferry patients to the hospital. A number of tests were conducted for free, while others were done at concessional rates. |
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17 injured in road mishap
Fatehabad, February 20 The injured were rushed to the General Hospital here while the two seriously hurt were shifted to Hisar. Sources said seriously injured Nitesh Saini and Jitender Saini, both residents of Gurgaon, were going towards Gurgaon from Sirsa when in an effort to overtake a truck, their car collided with a Haryana Roadways bus coming from the opposite direction. After hitting the car, the bus collided with the truck and then overturned. Nearly 15 bus passengers were injured in the accident. |
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Sanctuary to be community reserve
Chandigarh, February 20 The decision was taken at a meeting of the State Board for Wildlife of Haryana held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda here today. The matter of de-notification in this regard would be placed before the Standing Committee of National Board for Wildlife. CM offers support to France
The Haryana Government today offered full support to France to set up industrial units in the state. It also offered to set up French institutes in the universities of the state. This offer was made by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda at a meeting with French Ambassador to India Francois Richier here today. |
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Ambala railway overbridge closed for repairs
Ambala, February 20 During the repair of the bridge, heavy vehicular traffic will be diverted from the Jansui head (Ambala-Hisar road) to Mohra on NH-1. The light vehicular traffic will pass through the newly constructed railway overbridge between the Aggrsain chowk and Court road and through the INCO bridge and the grain market.
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Just 6 per cent candidates clear HTET
Bhiwani, February 20 Women outperformed their male counterparts, he added. Board secretary Anshaj Singh said in case a candidate finds an error after comparing the answer key and the question paper, he/she could send the complaint to the Board
secretary through registered, speed post or by hand with relevant facts and proofs. He said such complaints should reach the Board office within seven days of the declaration of the result after which no complaints would be entertained. |
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Recruitment on for 1,347 posts of constable
Chandigarh, February 20 Brig (retd) JS Maan, chairman of the board, said the board had received 10,687 applications for these posts. The Karnal District Legal Services Authority has a helpline (0184-2266138), which is functional from 10am to 5pm on all working days. The DLSA will organise the second national lok adalat on April 12. Renu Rana, CJM-cum-secretary DLSA
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Brick-kiln worker held on rape charge
Sonepat, February 20 The police said the girl had lodged a complaint yesterday that Sachin had raped her in the fields on February 17. The accused had also threatened her of dire consequences if she disclosed the matter to anyone.
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Board to build 50,000 houses for EWS Chandigarh, February 20 A spokesman of the board said here today that the total cost of the project was likely to be over Rs 2,250 crore. The construction of 22,600 houses was in progress at Ambala City, Yamunanagar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Jind, Fatehabad, Ratia, Hansi, Tohana, Hisar, Sirsa, Sonepat, Barhi, Gurgaon, Narnaul, Rewari, Faridabad, Palwal, Sisoth, Jhajjar, Bahadurgarh and Rohtak. He said the registration for 6,892 houses had been floated recently, which included 1,506 houses for Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes at Dadri. About houses for the EWS and BPL categories , he said the houses would comprise two rooms with a 300 square feet covered area and cost about Rs 4.50 lakh per unit.
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Hooda offers help to France Chandigarh February 20 This offer was made by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda at a meeting with French Ambassador to India Francois Richier here today. Francois evinced keen interest in mutual cooperation with Haryana in the field of education, urban planning and setting up industrial units.
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