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HPCC meeting on Oct 30 GURGAON, Oct 22 — The president of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has convened the much-awaited meeting of senior leaders of the party on October 30. Passbooks for Haryana farmers SIRSA, Oct 22 — Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala has announced that the farmers in the state would be issued passbooks that would serve as multi-purpose documents to keep a record of 'jamabandi' and 'girdawari' of their land holdings. |
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Chautala
wants OBC status for Jat community Haryana becomes strict on wilful
absence Reinstatement of employees ordered Sewage plant for Sonepat DPC to meet in Gurgaon on Oct 23,
24 Transfer of police officers
modified Power crisis disrupts life |
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HPCC meeting on Oct 30 GURGAON, Oct 22 — The president of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC), Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has convened the much-awaited meeting of senior leaders of the party on October 30. According to the vice-president of the HPCC, Rao Dharam Pal, the meeting will be attended by office-bearers of the state unit of the party, district presidents, legislators and nominees of the party for the just-concluded Parliamentary elections in the state. Rao Dharam Pal said that though the agenda of the meeting was to finalise the details of the Congress's post-poll course of action, the party sources said that the factors leading to the party's debacle in election were bond to come up for discussion. The official stand of the Haryana unit of the party was that since the factors were being already looked into by the party high command, the exercise would be superfluous. Incidentally, it would be the first formal meeting of the senior leaders of the party after the declaration of results of the Lok Sabha elections. The Congress lost all 10 Lok Sabha seats to the INLD-BJP combine although it increased its vote share as compared to the last two general elections. Informal talks with a section of the Congress leaders in the state gave an impression that the party wanted to come out of the shadow of its poor show in the hustings soon and brace for a possible snap Assembly poll in the state. The dominant line of thinking in the party was that the INLD and its ally, the BJP, after their good performance, would go for a mid-term election of the Vidhan Sabha. The reports of the state government approaching the Election Commission in connection with a possible snap poll was weighing heavily on the minds of the Congress leadership. Meanwhile, the party continues to be faction-ridden. The detractors of Mr Hooda, led by former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, have demanded a change in the leadership. In fact, Mr Bhajan Lal has publicly stated that the leadership will be changed by October 23. But unmindful of the developments. Mr Hooda has already launched a fresh agitation against the ruling INLD, putting his detractors in the party in a state of confusion. The Congress leadership
is said to be keenly watching the moves and announcements
of the present government and the party is said to be
preparing a suitable response to it. The party feels that
the crisis on the power front is likely to deepen and the
law and order situation will further deteriorate. Already
there are reports of worsening law and order situation,
especially in the districts in the vicinity of the
Capital. |
Passbooks for Haryana farmers SIRSA, Oct 22 (UNI) — Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala has announced that the farmers in the state would be issued passbooks that would serve as multi-purpose documents to keep a record of 'jamabandi' and 'girdawari' of their land holdings. He said yesterday that these passbooks would also serve as identity cards for various purposes such as obtaining bank loans and getting wards admitted to educational institutions. Mr Chautala, addressing a series of rural meetings on the second day of his three-day tour of the Rori Assembly constituency in his home district here, said a survey would be conducted to identify eligible beneficiaries for pension which had been recently doubled to Rs 200 per month. Those living below the poverty line would receive special ration cards, he added. He also said that efforts were being made to solve the water-logging problem in the area for which machinery had also been put into operation. He said that a drain was being dug to carry water from the water-logged area. The water would be drained into the Ghaggar river. The Chief Minister also visited some villages of the Dabwali Assembly constituency last evening to hear grievances of the people of the area. He declared Rori as a model village and announced civic amenities for the people of the area. He promised farmers sufficient power supply for rabi sowing and said even if the state had to buy power to meet the requirement, the government would buy it form neighbouring states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh but the farmers would get its sufficient supply. He said the Bhakra Canal would be desilted after rabi season because Haryana was receiving only 5,000 cusecs of water against its share of 12,000 cusecs. Mr Chautala said that sufficient potable water would be provided to the people. New pipelines would be laid to replace old pipes in colonies inhabited by the Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes. He said his government had accorded top priority to repair a length of 18,000-km roads in the state. Wherever there had been a problem of drainage, link roads woule be raised and constructed with concrete and cement, he added. At Rori, he announced setting up of a primary health centre, construction of a girls high school and roads from new anaj mandi to old anaj mandi. He also announced to upgrade three primary schools of Dharampura, Subakhera and Bhadra to middle schools and also upgradation of the Government Middle School, Singhpura, to high school. The Chief Minister was
accompanied by Mr Sushil Indora, MP, Mr Bhagi Ram, MLA,
and senior officers of the district administration. |
3-day symposium on animal
health HISAR, Oct 22 — The three-day national symposium on "animal health: Retrospect and prospect" began at CCS Haryana Agricultural University here today. Participants comprising microbiologists, immunologists, specialists in infectious diseases and directors (Animal Husbandry) from different states will work out strategies for next century. Dr C.M. Singh, President, Indian Veterinary Council, inaugurated the conference. He said India was ready to face challenges of globalisation in livestock sector. Notwithstanding the fact that due to the eradication of rinderpest and efficient control of a number of animal diseases, India had been able to increase livestock and poultry production substantially, much remained to be done to induct livestock farmers into scientific rearing practices, Dr Singh said. He asked the experts to disseminate newer technologies of animal breeding to the grassroot. He said due to inadequate surveillance, 39 livestock pathogens had entered the country through vaccines and semen. He said conservation of germplasm and development of repository of pathogen were the other challenges which the country would be facing in the 21st century. Mr Vinay Kumar, Vice-Chancellor (HAU) in his presidential address said deficit each year on the foreign exchange front, ever-increasing population and decreasing manpower and illiteracy were the major challenges that would have to be faced. The Vice-Chancellor urged the participants to harness natural resources more effectively through the use of science and technology. Citing the example of Japan, he said it had the highest density of population in the world and the least natural resources, but it had achieved phenomenal growth by equipping its natural and human resources with science and technology. On this occasion, the Vice-Chancellor awarded a number of participants with Dr C.M. Singh Memorial Award, Dr P.G. Pandey, Memorial Award, late Dr M.N. Kulkarni Award and Dr P.K. Uppal Young Scientists Travel Grant Award. Participants from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, bagged the maximum number of awards. Dr R.R. Bakshi,
President, Indian Association of Veterinary
Microbiologists (IAVM) and Dr A.A. Kumar, Secretary,
IAVM, addressing the participants, highlighted the
activities undertaken by the association during the
preceding year. Dr Bakshi said the introduction of annual
and external system of examination in the colleges of
veterinary sciences and the holding of entrance
examinations at the undergraduate-level would help in
achieving excellence. |
Chautala wants OBC status for Jat
community CHANDIGARH, Oct 22 — Mr Om Prakash Chautala, Haryana Chief Minister, has urged the Centre to confer the status of Other Backward Classes (OBC) on the Jat community as a whole and not to restrict the benefit to a particular area. Hailing the decision to include the Jats of Rajasthan in the list of other backward classes, he said the Jat community was engaged in the whole country in agriculture, and their socio-economic status was similar. There was, thus, no reason to include a section of Jats in the list and ignore the community in the rest of the country. Moreover, such a public welfare measures should not have been implemented in piecemeal. He reminded that it was in 1990 when his party was in power in Haryana that the Justice Gurnam Singh Commission was set up to identify castes which were socially and educationally backward so that these could be given the benefit of reservation in government jobs. The commission had included Ahir, Bishnoi, Meo, Gujjar, Jat, Jat Sikh, Ror, Saini, Tyagi and Rajput in the list of OBC. His government had even implemented the report of the commission but the Congress Government which came to power subsequently reversed the decision. The present government,
Mr Chautala said, had already set up the second backward
classes commission for inclusion of more socially,
economically and educationally backward castes in the OBC
list. |
Haryana becomes strict on wilful
absence CHANDIGARH, Oct 22 — The Haryana government has taken serious note of wilful absence by some of its employees and directed all heads of department to ensure that the leave sanctioning authority satisfied himself fully with regard to the genuineness of the grounds on which leave had been asked for. It has made it clear that the government employees who remain on unauthorised leave will invite disciplinary action against themselves. If an employee abstains himself abruptly or applies for leave, which is not granted and still abstains from duty, the entire period of absence will be treated as unauthorised absence. It will be deemed as interruption in service which entails forfeiture of past service. Disciplinary proceedings
will be initiated immediately against those employees who
fail to join duty. In case an employee remains
continuously on leave on medical grounds the leave
sanctioning authority will seek the opinion of the Chief
Medical Officer or the Principal Medical Officer without
delay. |
Reinstatement of employees ordered CHANDIGARH, Oct 22 — The Haryana Chief Secretary has ordered withdrawal of all the cases registered against the employees under ESMA and other sections of the IPC during various agitations from 1995 to 1998. He has directed all the departmental heads that the employees terminated, dismissed and suspended during the 1998 strike be taken back on duty by reinstating them and the period of absence be treated as duty period with full pay and allowances. The period during which the employees remained under termination, dismissal, suspension and imprisonment in the 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1997 strikes may be treated as duty period with full pay and allowances. All criminal cases registered against employees in connection with the agitations in these years be also withdrawn. The charge sheets served on the employees in connection with these agitations should be withdrawn and disciplinary proceedings resultantly pending against them be dropped. The period beginning
from May 21, 1995, to September 15, 1999, during which
the employees remained on dharna , rally, walk-out,
strike may also be treated as leave of the kind due and
disciplinary cases pending against employees relating to
this period be dropped. |
Sewage plant for Sonepat SONEPAT, Oct 22 — The Haryana Government has earmarked a sum of Rs 23.69 crore for the installation of a sewage treatment plant, laying of sewerage lines, construction of community latrines and cremation grounds and plantation of trees in this fast growing industrial city. Mr Sudhir Rajpal, Deputy Commissioner, told mediapersons here today that the Public Health Department had already completed work for the laying of sewerage in different parts of the city at a cost of Rs 10.54 crore. A 12 km-long sewerage lines had been constructed for carrying the storm and drain water to the treatment plant, which had been installed on the Rathdhanna road at a cost of Rs 11.26 crore. This plant, he said, had a capacity of three crore litres everyday. He disclosed that this modern plant, equipped with latest machinery, would check water pollution. Community latrines had been constructed at five places — general bus stand, Dhanak Basti, Delhi Camp, Municipal Council's office and the mini Secretariat — at a cost of Rs 34 lakh. Meanwhile,
representatives of various political organisations,
social and voluntary organisations have urged the state
government to order a probe into the complaints regarding
the substandard work and use of substandard material in
laying of sewerage lines under the Yamuna Action Plan in
the city. They also alleged that the contractors had
duped the state government in this project. |
DPC to meet in Gurgaon on
Oct 23, 24 CHANDIGARH, Oct 22 — A meeting of the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) for induction of state civil service officers into the IAS will be held at Gurgaon on October 23 and 24. Mr S.L. Madan, member of the Union Public Service Commission, will preside over the meeting, which will be attended by the Chief Secretary and other senior officers of the state government besides a Joint Secretary of the Government of India. The inordinate delay in holding the DPC meeting has been a cause of resentment among the HCS officers whose promotional avenues have been blocked. The meeting, which is being held after a gap of five years, is likely to recommend for promotion the names of a large number of officers from the 1975 to 1982 batch. In all, nearly three
dozen posts, which are to be filled through promotions,
are lying vacant at present. |
Transfer of police officers
modified CHANDIGARH, Oct 22 — The Haryana Government today modified the transfer orders of some police officers. Mr Vikas, Inspector-General of Police, Haryana, Haryana Armed Police, has been given the additional charge of Director, Police Training College, Madhuban, during the leave period of Mr R.N. Vasudeva, IPS. Mr Pirthi Singh, under transfer to SVB, goes as SP, Rewari, vice Mr A.S. Chawla, whose posting orders will be issued later. Mrs Mamta Singh, IPS, becomes ASP, Faridabad, against a vacant post. Mr Inder Singh Saini,
under transfer as DSP, goes as DSP, Palwal, vice Mr Hukam
Singh, DSP, who is posted as DSP, Ambala, vice Mr Lachman
Das, who takes over as DSP (Hqrs), Rewari. Mr Param Jit
Singh, DSP, Mohindergarh, has been posted as DSP, Dadri
in place of Mr Inder Singh Saini. |
Power crisis disrupts life ROHTAK, Oct 22 — Frequent power cut has disrupted life in the Rohtak and Jhajjar districts owing to short supply from various sources during the past few days. The situation is likely to continue for at least a week. The main reason for the crisis is short supply from sources like the Bhakra dam at Nangal in Punjab, NTPC plants and the power station of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) at Ropar in Punjab. It is reported that production of power has been affected following annual repair and maintenance works at these units. One of the units at the thermal plant at Panipat has been shut down, according to sources. The sources say Rohtak
district (including Jhajjar) which normally gets 23 lakh
units daily, has been getting 18 lakh units daily. |
Rs 2 lakh for Dhan Raj
welfare society CHANDIGARH, Oct 22 — HelpAge India, an organisation working for the old, released a cheque for Rs 2 lakh to the Pt Dhan Raj Social Welfare Society. The cheque was released by Mrs Reena Sophat, Principal, Modern Senior Secondary School, Patiala. Mr Bhavneshwar Sharma,
executive officer, HelpAge India, explained the
activities of the society. |
Salary on Oct 29 CHANDIGARH, Oct 22
— The Haryana Government has decided to disburse
salaries for the month on October 29 in view of three
consecutive holidays from October 30 to November 1. |
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