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 Friday, August 13, 1999 |
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Rohtak PGIMS Director
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BJP favours Dara Singh
for Rohtak seat GURGAON, Aug 12 — The Bharatiya Janata Party has proposed to field former freestyle wrestler and cine personality, Dara Singh, for Rohtak parliamentary seat, intensifying its pressure on the ruling Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in Haryana to leave the seat to it in the INLD-BJP alliance in the process. BJP, INLD reach pact on
seats 118
cases of power theft detected EVMs for accurate polling Rohtak
PGIMS Director removed Withdraw
'oppression' cases: CPM L.M.
Mehta promoted |
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Rohtak PGIMS Director removed ROHTAK, Aug 12 — The government has removed the Director of Pt B.D. Sharma PGIMS, Dr D.S. Dubey, from his post with immediate effect allegedly on charges of misutilisation of funds, mismanagement and misuse of position. The orders were reportedly delivered today at 2.30 p.m. to the Director by Mrs K. Kuttappan, Under-Secretary, Health. The Dean, PGIMS, Dr S.B. Siwatch, has been asked to assume charge as acting-Director in place of Dr Dubey. The order said the service of Dr Dubey were being dispensed with "in public interest". The government no longer required his services. Dr Dubey, who took over as the Director on January 1, 1998, was to retire on December 31, 2000, on the expiry of his three-year term. The government order said Dr Dubey would be paid remuneration for the remaining period of his contract by the PGIMS. An official spokesman told TNS on telephone that the government was left with no option, but to dispense with Dr Dubey services as he had allegedly committed grave irregularities, including misutilisation of funds and misuse of his position. The inquiry conducted by the Financial Commissioner and Secretary, Health and Medical Education, into the allegations levelled against Dr Dubey revealed that he has spent large amounts on apportioning facilities to himself for which he was not entitled, he said. The spokesman said that Dr Dubey availed LTC for himself and his wife though he was not entitled for this facility as his appointment was only for a period of three years. After being appointed as Head of the Anesthesia Department, Dr Dubey withdraw the charge of operation theatres from various Heads of Department and assumed them himself. He also became the internal examiner for MD (Anesthesia), though he never taught students, he said. Dr Dubey, he alleged, had also adopted a defiant attitude and did not implement government orders. When the government appointed Dr O.P. Phaugat as Estate Officer, Dr Dubey described the orders as "interference in the working of the PGIMS". He did not implement the orders. When medicines were being pilferaged from the central stores of the PG MS and sold in the open market, the Director was not aware of it. It was the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Arun Kumar, who informed the government about it. The Deputy Commissioner
wrote to the government that there were a number of
questions unanswered regarding the use of medicines in
the PGIMS. "It will be appropriate if a vigilance
inquiry is conducted in the matter", he suggested. |
tConcern over
rising milk adulteration KARNAL, Aug 12 — Mr Adrian Simcock, New Zealand's High Commissioner to India, expressed concern over the rising phenomenon of milk adulteration in India. He was addressing a seminar at the India Dairy Association National Seminar "Challenges-Dairying in the next millennium" at the NDRI Auditorium here today. Mr Simcock, suggested that there should be an effective law enforcement and testing procedures to prevent adulteration. He was of the view that such measures alone could not be effective. The long term solution to the problem lay in the provisions of better prices to producers for the supply of raw milk and reliable collection as well as distribution system. He was of the view that satisfied suppliers would provide quality milk. He said despite India's population crossing the 1 million mark, the country had been able to achieve food self-sufficiency. He went on to say that the contribution made by the dairy sector in this respect had been remarkable and the increase in milk production had been spectacular. He said India today was the largest producer of milk in the world. Talking about the Indian dairy industry, the quality of milk, milk products, packaging and the country's capacity to compete in dairy products in the international market, he stated that there were possibilities of a joint venture between New Zealand and India in commercial milk production and establishment of milk farms. Prospects were there for importing dairy equipment and machinery from New Zealand. He maintained that Indian dairy industry had on its agenda the establishment of commercial milk producing farms. This step would assist in the high-level milk production in the country. However, he feared that as the supply of milk was made by small milkmen with one or two animals, this fragmentation of supply posed difficulties. He felt one of the main challenges would be to ensure better linkage between private milk producers and commercial milk processors. It should also be ensured that profits were passed back to the producers who would get means to enhance milk production through better husbandry practices and the purchase of more and improved animals. About new products and marketing in dairying, Mr Simcock wanted environmental-sensitive packaging by the industry. Speaking about the progress made by New Zealand in the field of dairy industry, the High Commissioner disclosed that dairy products exports represented about 25 per cent of the total exports from New Zealand. Furthermore, about 90 to 95 per cent of milk produced in New Zealand was processed into products meant for exports. Dr O.S. Tomer, Director, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, maintained that the changing dairy scenario in the next millennium called for the upgradation of India's HRD programmes for evolving delivery system to meet the needs of dairy industry at a multitier-level. Therefore, the dairy education programme needed to be further reoriented. He expressed unhappiness over the spectre of synthetic milk which loomed large in the northern parts of India. He said if this practice continued unchecked, it would harm the image of the dairy industry in the international market and ruin export potential. He said India had an advantage with regard to the export of dairy products as it had achieved spectacular success in suitably modifying the technologies for the manufacture of products from buffalo milk. He wanted scientists to exploit this superiority. He said more R&D efforts were needed to export products from buffalo milk. The vast export potential which existed in India could not be harnessed until and unless it gave a serious thought to quality assurance of milk and its products. For this the weakest link which lay in developing appropriate packaging systems should be improved. These systems should confirm to the international standards of products safety, shelf-life and labelling requirements. He said the equipment for the packaging of butter, cheese, paneer and other traditional products needed attention with an eye on the industry's need for small and large-scale operations. There was also need to adopt environment-friendly biodegradable packaging as against plastic sachets being used. He was of the view that in the wake of India becoming the leading milk producers in the world, the organised sector of dairy industry had unprecedented quantities of milk to handle. He disclosed that in 1995, 370 fluid milk plants in the country were handling approximately 18 millions litres of milk daily. This was projected to reach about 30 millions litres of milk per day by 2000.
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BJP favours Dara Singh for
Rohtak seat GURGAON, Aug 12 — The Bharatiya Janata Party has proposed to field former freestyle wrestler and cine personality, Dara Singh, for Rohtak parliamentary seat, intensifying its pressure on the ruling Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in Haryana to leave the seat to it in the INLD-BJP alliance in the process. Although a formal announcement was yet to be made, sources said that the BJP has finalised its nominees for the Mahendragarh, Faridabad, Karnal and Ambala parliamentary constituencies. Mrs Sudha Yadav, a widow of Mr Sukhvir Singh, Commandant of the BSF killed in Kargil recently, has found the nod of the BJP high command for nomination from Mahendragarh seat. Mrs Yadav, a Ph.D in Chemistry, has been chosen bypassing Col Ram Singh, a former union minister, and his wife, Mrs Sharda Singh, whose names were also in the panel prepared by the Haryana unit of the party. Incidentally, Mrs Yadav, a teacher in Government Senior Secondary School in Gurgaon district, is a new face in Haryana’s politics. The BJP has finalised her name hoping for sympathy votes due to sacrifice of life of her husband for the security of the country. The areas falling in Mahendragarh parliamentary constituencies is noted for ex-servicemen, serving military personnel and war heroes since the struggle for Independence. The BJP has renominated the sitting MP from Faridabad, Mr Ram Chander Bainda. It has also once again chosen the candidature of Mr I.D. Swamy from Karnal. Mr Swamy had won from Karnal as the BJP nominee. For the Ambala (Reserved) constituency, the party has opted for the candidature of Mr Ratan Lal Kataria, a former MLA from Radore Assembly constituency. The party high command gave the nod in favour of Mr Kataria after it decided against fielding the UP Governor, Mr Suraj Bhan. who had expressed his desire to the party leadership to contest from Ambala. The BJP high command ruled against Mr Suraj Bhan’s candidature as his nomination would have created the vacancy of UP Governor. For filling up the vacancy, the caretaker government at the Centre headed by Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee would have to seek Presidential assent. The BJP apprehended the final decision of the President, which could have created another controversy during run-up to the Lok Sabha elections. The sources in the Haryana unit of the BJP said that the central leadership of the party has authorised the All-India Vice-President and former Chief Minister of Delhi, Mr Madan Lal Khurana, to approach the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, and discuss with him the proposal of Dara Singh’s candidature for Rohtak. Incidentally, Dara Singh is the president of the All-India Jat Sabha and is considered to be close to the Devi Lal clan. In the last Lok Sabha elections, Dara Singh had canvassed for the INLD nominees. There are indications that the INLD would relent its stand and give away the Rohtak seat to the BJP. Dara Singh is believed to have some clout with the Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, who has influence in BJP circles as well as the Devi Lal clan. The BJP leaders claim
that Dara Singh had joined the party last year. The INLD
had decided to leave the Mahendragarh, Faridabad, Karnal
and Ambala seats to the BJP. However, the Haryana unit of
the BJP was rooting for five seats, including that of
Rohtak. |
BJP, INLD reach pact on
seats ROHTAK, Aug 12 — With the INLD conceding the Sonepat parliamentary constituency to the BJP, the stalemate between the two parties on sharing of seats ended today. Both the parties would now contest five seats each in alliance with each other, the BJP state president, Mr Om Prakash Grover, said. The BJP would contest from Ambala, Karnal, Faridabad, Mahendragarh and Sonepat and the INLD from the remaining constituencies of Rohtak, Hisar, Bhiwani, Sirsa and Kurukshetra. Although the BJP had been insisting on getting the Rohtak constituency, the INLD chief, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, sacrificed the Sonepat seat in order to retain the Rohtak seat to avenge the defeat of Mr Devi Lal from here. The decision has surprised the political circles as the INLD chief had a month ago announced the candidature of Mr Kishan Singh Sangwan from the Sonepat constituency. Mr Sangwan, the sitting MP, had even launched his campaign and visited the constituency to mobilise his supporters and workers. Though the BJP has already announced the four seats of Ambala, Karnal, Faridabad and Mahendragarh, the party nominee for the Sonepat seat would be announced on August 14 by the BJP Parliamentary Board. Mr Gulshan Bhatia, office secretary of the state unit of the BJP, claimed that there was no dearth of BJP candidates for the Sonepat seat. Similarly, the INLD has
also announced its candidates for Hisar, Sirsa, Bhiwani
and Kurukshetra but it was still in search of a suitable
candidate for Rohtak. The INLD chief and Chief Minister,
Mr Om Prakash Chautala, is likely to announce the party
candidate here tomorrow. |
Tehsildar 'beaten up' by policemen REWARI, Aug 12 — Just on the heels of the Rohtak incident in which the Deputy Commissioner was criminally intimidated by a ruling party legislator, another incident of police high-handedness, in which a tehsildar was severely beaten up on Sunday, has virtually rocked the Rewari region. Giving details, Mr Raj Vir Singh Yadav, Tehsildar of Alwar in Rajasthan, who is now under treatment said he was returning to Alwar in his Maruti car at about 10.30 p.m. on Sunday when he was stopped for checking at the Banipur chowk on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, 10 km from here, by police. After about half-an-hour when he demanded back his driving licence and registration copy after telling the police that he was a tehsildar and was to resume duty, he was allegedly pushed out of his car and was showered with kicks and blows by the inspector and other policemen injuring his eyes. Later, he was taken to the Bawal police station and a case registered against him under Section 186, 332 and 353 for abstructing the inspector and his men in discharging of their duty. His repeated requests to allow him to talk to his family at Rewari were turned down. He was granted bail on Monday by the local Judicial Magistrate (First Class), Mrs Amita Yadav, who also ordered his medical examination at the civil hospital here. A deputation of advocates, including his elder brother Mr Kuldip Singh Yadav, an advocate, along with the injured tehsildar met the S.P., Mr A.S. Chawla, who conducted a detailed inquiry. Meanwhile, the tehsildar
has made a representation to the Chief Justice, Punjab
and Haryana High Court, Chairman of the National Human
Rights Commission and the D.G.P., Haryana, seeking
justice and stringent action against the erring Inspector
and his men. |
118 cases of power theft detected YAMUNANAGAR, Aug 12 — The Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam has geared up to provide round-the- clock power to the people of the state. Mr S.S. Dhillon, Managing Director of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN), held a meeting of senior officers of the department here yesterday and told them that the government's intention to provide uninterrupted power to the people was clear. Mr S.C. Gupta, Chief Engineer, UHBVN, told mediapersons that the power supply in the Yamunanagar circle was satisfactory. He said eight hours of power supply was being provided to the rural feeders for tubewell purposes and a two-phase supply was being given for domestic use for about 12 hours per day. He said all defective transformers had been replaced. Mr Gupta said extensive checking of meters had been carried out to detect theft of power. As many as 118 cases of theft had been detected in the first quarter of the current financial year in the Yamunanagar circle and Rs 23.31 lakh charged as penalty. A spokesperson of the
UHBVN said a new 66 KV sub-station at Jathlana had also
been commissioned at an estimated cost of Rs 5 crore. He
said about 30 villages around Jathlana and about 100
villages getting power supply from Radaur and Yamunanager
sub-stations would benefit from it. |
EVMs for accurate polling ROHTAK: The announcement regarding the use of electronic voting machines in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election has evoked a mixed response among voters in the district. This machine will be used in the Rohtak and Karnal parliamentary constituencies for the first time in the state. Some people feel that factors like illiteracy, old age and physical disability can adversely affect polling through this machine. However, Mr Bhaskar Chatterjee, Haryana's Chief Electoral Officer, has claimed the procedure of polling and counting of votes through this machine is easy and accurate. Moreover, the possibilities of irregularities and invalidation of votes following the use of this machine were nil. Describing the machine as absolutely reliable he said this machine was of international standard. It had been used earlier in the country and no complaint had been registered against it. He has recently acquainted all election officials of Rohtak parliamentary constituency with the use of this machine at a meeting here. He also directed the district election officer to apprise the people of the machine's operation. Manufactured by Bharat Electronics Ltd, Bangalore, this machine has two units — belting and control. The names of as many as 16 candidates can appear on the belting unit. The voter has to press a green button by the symbol of the desired candidate to cast his vote. The light would glow along with a deep sound and the vote would be registered. If a smart voter tries to press the button once again or to press some another button, it would not register. The control unit would be under the observation of presiding officer concerned who would check it before its use. The district electoral officer, Mr Arun Kumar, has appealed to the panches and sarpanches to teach village residents on the use of this machine so that they could exercise their franchise successfully. Some of the panches and sarpanches have been given a chance to vote through this machine to enable them to observe the machine's procedure. Meanwhile, the revision
of voters' lists has been completed. According to
official sources, there are 9,38,634 voters in Rohtak
parliamentary constituency comprising nine assembly
segments, of which 5,12,156 are males and 4,26,478
females. There are 1,27,239 voters in Rohtak, 1,14,918 in
Jhajjar, 1,07,643 in Salhawas, 1,07,354 in Meham,
1,03,246 in Kiloi, 97,687 in Beri, 96,897 in Badli,
93,543 in Hassangarh and 90,105 in Kalanaur assembly
segments. |
Rohtak PGIMS Director removed ROHTAK, Aug 12 — The state government has removed the Director of the Pt B.D. Sharma Postgraduate Institute of Medical Science (PGIMS), Dr D.S. Dubey, and asked him to hand over the charge to the Dean, Dr S.B. Siwach. The order which reportedly reached here last night stated that the services of the present Director had been dispensed with immediate effect on charges of various irregularities. The government, however, announced that he would be provided others allowances for the remaining period of his term. Dr Dubey who became to Director in January, 1998, had completed just over half of his three-year term. Dr Dubey described his
removal as illegal and improper. He said he had become a
victim of a well-planned conspiracy. Claiming that the
charge levelled against him were "false", he
said it was humiliating. |
Withdraw 'oppression' cases: CPM ROHTAK, Aug 12 — The CPM has demanded immediate withdrawal of the cases of 'oppression' filed against government employees during the three-year tenure of the HVP-BJP coalition. In a statement here today, Mr Inderjit Singh, secretary of the party, expressed surprise that no action had been taken regarding withdrawal of such cases despite the reported announcement by Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala in this connection. He alleged that various agitations launched by the employees in support of their demands were crushed by the previous government and oppressive measures were taken against the employees in the form of suspension and termination of services. The CPM leader asserted
that settlement of the cases of oppression against the
employees was not a violation of the code of conduct and
he sought immediate action by the departments concerned
in this regard. |
L.M. Mehta promoted CHANDIGARH, Aug 12 — Mr L.M. Mehta, a 1968 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre, on deputation with the Government of India and working as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence (MoD), has been elevated to the post of Additional Secretary in the MoD. Mr Mehta is an old student of DAV College, Chandigarh. He had done his postgraduation from the University of Bath in the UK. He had won the Kalinga
Trust Award in the national integration competition in
1962. |
Four file papers in Haryana CHANDIGARH, Aug 12 — Four candidates, including a former MP, filed their papers in Haryana on the second day of nominations for the Lok Sabha elections to be held on September 5. The Samajwadi Party candidates- Mr Randhir Singh from Kurukshetra, Mr Narsingh Dass from Karnal and Mr Manohar Lal Saini, a former MP from Mahendragarh — and Mr Subhash Batra of the Jan Sangh, also from Mahendragarh, filed their papers today. No nomination papers
were filed yesterday in Haryana. |
Businessman robbed of 3.35 lakh FARIDABAD, Aug 12 — Two armed youths robbed a businessman of Rs 3.35 lakh in his office near the Nehru ground in broad daylight. The youths fired in the air to scare away the people who tried to catch them. According to the police, the businessman, after withdrawing the amount from Rajasthan Bank, had reached his office when the incident occurred. A case has been
registered. |
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