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Wednesday July 8, 1998

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Power tariff hike for development: Bansi
PANIPAT, July 7 — The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, has said that power tariff had to be increased so that development works could continue. He was addressing a public meeting at Kurar village, 20 km from here today...

Attempts to grab public land foiled
FATEHABAD, July 7 — Large-scale encroachment on Public land by influential persons had made the public on alert. There have been many incidents of land grab attempts with the blessings of certain powerful politicians of the area in the recent past...

Transfer of sangh leader condemned
SONEPAT, July 7 — Members of the Sarv Karamchari Sangh held a demonstration here today to protest against the transfer of Mr Janardan Prasad Kothari, district president of the sangh, from Sonepat to Sirsa by the government...

Missing girl case solved
ROHTAK, July 7 — The police solved the case of missing girl when the forensic laboratory at Madhuban yesterday confirmed that the body of a girl sent by the police was of Mohini of Pehrawar village who was missing since May 9 last...
Only Cong can give stability: YC chief
SONEPAT, July 7 — Mr Munish Tiwari, president of the All-India Youth Congress, said here today that the Congress alone could provide a stable government at the Centre and deliver the goods to the people...
Haryana order on loans
CHANDIGARH, July 7 — The Haryana Government has empowered the heads of department to waive off certain loans...
Competitions for varsity students
CHANDIGARH, July 7 — The Haryana Higher Education Department will organise three competitions on the theme of Independence struggle in connection with the golden jubilee of India's Independence...

Power tariff hike for development: Bansi
From Our Correspondent
PANIPAT, July 7 — The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, has said that power tariff had to be increased so that development works could continue.
He was addressing a public meeting at Kurar village, 20 km from here today. It was organised by Mr Kartar Singh Bhadana, MLA from the Samalkha constituency. He said because of a revision in grades of the employees, the Haryana State Electricity Board had to bear an additional expenditure of Rs 60 crore every year. The state would have sufficient electricity as 1,200 mw would be generated within the next one-and-a-half years.
The Chief Minister said the present government which was committed to ensure round-the-clock power supply had already augmented 103 substations, set up 21 new substations and laid 1890 km new transmission lines within two years. In all, the government had invested about Rs 400 crore to improve the power sector. "It would be unfair to compare the price of power in Haryana with neighbouring states because the state does not have adequate cheap sources of power supply like hydro-electric power as in the case of neighbouring states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh," he said Haryana mainly depends upon purchase from central generating agencies to meet its power requirement.
He said the state government had provided about Rs 8 crore to the

Irrigation Department for executing 94 flood protection projects of these, 41 are in the Yamuna canal system, 37 in the Bhakra canal system, and 16 in lift canal area. The government has sanctioned Rs 81 lakh for repairing pumps and constructing and preparing ring-bunds, embankments and river protection works. He said the state government was considering the abolition of octroi in the state.
Mr Bansi Lal said priority was being given to improve the availability of power for paddy and oilseed crops in Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Yamunanagar, Karnal districts and parts of Panipat, Ambala and Ahirwal. He said that the HVP-BJP alliance government was not anti-people or anti-farmer as alleged by leaders of the Opposition parties, including Mr Om Prakash Chautala and Mr Bhajan Lal. These leaders he alleged, were power hungry and they were trying to grab the power in Haryana.
He said the Opposition parties had no right to criticise the government for hike as the HVP had launched a massive power restructuring and refurbishing programme to improve the power sector while the previous governments had neglected the power sector.

Attempts to grab public land foiled
From Our Correspondent
FATEHABAD, July 7 — Large-scale encroachment on Public land by influential persons had made the public on alert. There have been many incidents of land grab attempts with the blessings of certain powerful politicians of the area in the recent past.
Residents of Akanwali village, in this district appeared before Deputy Commissioner, P.C. Bidhan at his weekly open darbar and complained that some influential persons of the village were trying to grab common land of the village. The residents also complained that the land grabbers had the patronage of certain politicians of the area.
The Deputy Commissioner referred the matter to the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Mr Phateh Singh Dagar, who foiled the attempt with police help.
Though the attempt has been foiled, local residents still fear that said elements may try to grab the land again.
In an almost similar incident certain influential persons tried to encroach on two plots of shops belonging to the Market Committee at Bhuna in this district. The alleged land grabbers had dumped building meterial on the plots with the intention of constructing shops on these plots. They had the patronage of powerful persons. When the local administration tried to intervene, they managed a decree from a court and produced it before the authorities,
The local shopkeepers of the grain market met the Deputy Commissioner here, who referred this case to the SDM. The SDM, Mr Dagar, ordered the removal of the encroachment and a wall was erected by the market committee, on the piece of land to foil any future attempt by unscrupulous elements to grab the land.
These two are not isolated cases of land-grab attempt by influential persons. In fact this has become a routine these days, with powerful persons trying to grab common land in the villages. Even government property is not spared. Protests by local residents has thwarted many such attempts.
Though the administration has foiled the recent attempt of land grabbing local residents fear that attempts might be repeated.

Transfer of sangh leader condemned
SONEPAT, July 7 — Members of the Sarv Karamchari Sangh held a demonstration here today to protest against the transfer of Mr Janardan Prasad Kothari, district president of the sangh, from Sonepat to Sirsa by the government.
The demonstrators assembled at the Municipal Park and raised slogans against the HSEB Chairman and the Chief Minister.
A rally was also held on this occasion and it was presided by Mr Kothari.
Addressing the rally, Mr Sheelak Ram Malik, district secretary of the sangh, accused the Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, of victimising sangh leaders.
Mr Partap Singh, another leader of the sangh, condemned the action of the state government in transfering Mr Kothari and announced that the agitating employees would not bow to the threats of the state government. He appealed to the government employees to ramain united and prepare themselves for a long struggle against the government. He also urged them to reach Delhi on July 10 and take part in the proposed rally and demonstration before Parliament.
Leaders of other unions who addressed the rally included Mr Ranbir Deswal, Mr Bijender Kadyan, Mr Jagdish, Mr Rajinder Rathod, Mr Jai Bhagwan Dahiya and Mr Ram Mehar Sharma. They declared that they would take part in the proposed Delhi rally.

Missing girl case solved
From Our Correspondent
ROHTAK, July 7 — The police solved the case of missing girl when the forensic laboratory at Madhuban yesterday confirmed that the body of a girl sent by the police was of Mohini of Pehrawar village who was missing since May 9 last.
The police recovered two decomposed bodies from the Sampla canal and a nullah near Pehrawar village in June 22 and 23 respectively. But the bodies were beyond indenification.
According to sources, the Assistant Director of Madhuban Forensic Laboratory, Dr M.K. Goyal, yesterday submitted his report to the district police. In his report he stated that the body was of a girl aged 15 to 17 years. A probable face structure of the deceased on the basis of the skeleton also drawn.
According to an FIR lodged by Mr Harnand, father of the deceased, Mohini was abducted on May 9 last. Later, she was reportedly raped and murdered. Her father suspected two youths of the same village to have committed the crime. The youths, when arrested after one month of the incident, had reportedly confessed that they had raped and murdered the girl and thrown the body into the canal.

Only Cong can give stability: YC chief
From Our Correspondent
SONEPAT, July 7 — Mr Munish Tiwari, president of the All-India Youth Congress, said here today that the Congress alone could provide a stable government at the Centre and deliver the goods to the people.
Talking to mediapersons, he said if Congress workers failed to unite at this juncture, the country would be disintegrated. He lashed out at the BJP-led coalition government at the Centre and alleged that the people had lost their confidence in it.
Expressing concern over the price rise and deteriorating law and order situation, he said the people had been denied supply of power and water.
He said the country was poised towards chaos and the present government had failed to tackle the problems of militancy.
He also said the present HVP-BJP alliance government in Haryana had failed on all fronts and that the Chief Minister should resign on moral grounds as he had not fulfilled even a single pre-election promise made to the people.
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Haryana order on loans
Tribune News Service
CHANDIGARH, July 7 — The Haryana Government has empowered the heads of department to waive off the outstanding principal amount of house building advance, marriage advance, wheat advance, festival advance, cycle advance and the recovery of outstanding interest on all the advances taken by Group C and D (Class III and IV) employees, who die in service.
The waiving off these advances was applicable in those cases where not more than one surviving member of the family is employed.

3 competitions for varsity students
Tribune News Service
CHANDIGARH, July 7 — The Haryana Higher Education Department will organise three competitions on the theme of Independence struggle in connection with the golden jubilee of India's Independence.
The Haryana Education Minister, Mr Ram Bilas Sharma, today said all university and colleges in Haryana were being involved in these competitions. A quiz competition on the theme of India's Independence struggle at the level of History Departments of both the government and non-government colleges would be completed by July 31 and by universities by August 14.
Mr Sharma said a competition on writing Hindi songs or poems on the theme of Independence was being organised by the Hindi Departments of Kurukshetra and Maharishi Dayanand Universities and the entries would be received by the first week of next month. Entries for best colleges and best teachers were also being invited by the Dean, College Development Council, of Kurukshetra and Maharishi Dayanand Universities in the prescribed proforma by the first week of August.
The Minister said final winners of these competitions would be honoured at the Independence day ceremonies on August 15.