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 Tuesday, September 21, 1999 |
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Autorickshaws violate pact FARIDABAD, Sept 20 — The agreement between the district administration and representatives of autorickshaw drivers signed on September 17 regarding the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act is being implemented more in violation by autorickshaw owners in Faridabad. Oily substance results in fire PANIPAT, Sept 20 — A fire probe out in an open drain near the Narain Singh Park colony yesterday due to accumulated inflammable oily substance allegedly discharged by a factory located near Assandh Road. |
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Cops blamed for clash ROHTAK, Sept 20 — The SC/ST cell of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee has held the police responsible for a clash between two communities at Kakroli Sardara village in Bhiwani district in which several persons, including Dalits were beaten up and their property damaged. Declare
Haryana drought-hit: Cong Three
policemen suspended
Farmers
seek probe against officials Three
dacoits arrested GJU
council approves syllabi Sonepat
faces water crisis Plea
to expedite canal water scheme 2
of family killed in road mishap Development
works ‘delayed’ Man
gets life term "Farm
darshan" concludes |
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Autorickshaws violate pact FARIDABAD, Sept 20 — The agreement between the district administration and representatives of autorickshaw drivers signed on September 17 regarding the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act is being implemented more in violation by autorickshaw owners in Faridabad. The autorickshaws remained off the road for five days last week after the police launched a drive against them for not following traffic rules and causing air pollution. A large number of vehicles were impounded by the police and certain others did not ply for fear of being challaned as they neither possessed the documents nor had licences to ply. Although people had faced inconvenience due to the absence of the autorickshaws, they praised the police as its action improved the traffic situation. But after some ruling party leaders intervened, the autorickshaws were allowed to ply, if they followed the guidelines. But even three days after the accord there is no improvement in the situation. The autorickshaws continue to flout the traffic rules by carrying passengers more than the capacity, not getting possess pollution control certificates or not possessing valid documents. The locally-made diesel engines which emit dark smoke have also not been removed. The administration had allowed the 15 days to deposit the road tax and for the procurement of driving licences. The other points of the agreement had to be implemented immediately. Instead of following the rules the autorickshaws have increased the fare. The administration had swung into action on a directives issued by the Punjab and Haryana High Court where the action taken report is to be submitted on September 23. A similar drive against
the erring autorickshaws was launched several months ago,
but was discontinued for reasons best known to the
administration. |
Oily substance results in
fire PANIPAT, Sept 20 — A fire probe out in an open drain near the Narain Singh Park colony yesterday due to accumulated inflammable oily substance allegedly discharged by a factory located near Assandh Road. However, the fire was put off by fire brigade tenders immediately before it could spread. According to available information, the owner of Gogi Printing Press, Rajiv, noticed a fire in the open drain near his shop and immediately informed the fire station. Fire tenders were immediately pressed into service and the fire was put off. Enquiries revealed that a factory on Assandh Road has been releasing the inflammable oily substance for a long time which has accumulated at many places in the clogged drain. A burning match-stick might have resulted in the fire. Residents of the area met the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Anurag Rastogi, and urged him to look into the matter. The Public Relations
Officer of a social organisation, Parakh, Mr Suresh
Goyal, said the Pollution Control Board had been informed
about the release of the oily substance earlier, but no
action was taken. |
11 teachers to get state
awards CHANDIGARH, Sept 20 — The Haryana Government will confer state awards to 11 teachers for 1998-99 at a function to be organised at Raj Bhavan here tomorrow. Stating this here today, the Haryana Minister of State for Education, Mr O.P.Jain, said the Governor, Mr Mahabir Prasad, would honour the teachers and give away awards to them. The Chief Minister, Mr Om Parkash Chautala, would also attend the function. The award carried a cash award of Rs 2500 , a certificate of merit, a silver medal and a shawl besides the awardees are also entitled to two years' extension in service beyond the age of superannuation and two increments for a period of five years. The primary teachers selected for the state award are Mr Puran Chand, head teacher, Government Primary School No.4, Sirsa; Mr Ram Kishan Singal, JBT teacher, Government Primary School, Theh Buttana (Kaithal); Mr Tek Chand, JBT teacher, Government Primary School, Dhigtana (Hisar); and Mr Satish Kumar, JBT teacher, Government Primary School, Chana Jiwaran (Karnal). Similarly, Mrs Rani
Goyal, Lecturer in Sanskrit, Government Girls Senior
Secondary School, Panipat; Mrs Rani Durga Wati, SS
Mistress, Government Middle School, Baldi (Karnal), Mr
Diwan Chand, Lecturer in English, Government Senior
Secondary School, Tigrana (Bhiwani); Mr Kulwant Singh,
Science Master, Government High School, Bhatt Majra
(Kurukshetra); Mr Inder Singh, PTI, Government High
School, Rindhana (Sonepat); Mr Surinder Dutt, Lecturer in
Economics, Government Senior Secondary School, Kaalwas
(Hisar); and Mrs Saroj Taneja, Head Mistress, Shri HKSD
Girls High School, Hisar, all secondary teachers have
also been selected for the State Award. |
Cops blamed for clash ROHTAK, Sept 20 — The SC/ST cell of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) has held the police responsible for a clash between two communities at Kakroli Sardara village in Bhiwani district in which several persons, including Dalits were beaten up and their property damaged. This has been claimed by the co-convener of the cell, Mr Ram Mehar, who visited the village and met the affected. In a statement here, Mr Ram Mehar claimed that while the police had been alerted about the possibility of an attack on Dalits, it did not take any action to prevent the attack. He said although a few persons had been taken in custody, the real culprits had not been arrested. He also alleged that the
police had been trying to hush up the case as some of
those involved belonged to influential families. He said
the vehicles, firearms, rods and lathis used in the
attack had not been seized by the police and no
compensation had been paid to the victims. |
Declare Haryana drought-hit:
Cong CHANDIGARH, Sept 20 — The Haryana Congress has demanded that the state should be declared as drought-hit in view of poor rainfall during June, July and August this year. In a statement issued here today, the Haryana Congress President, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, said there was an acute shortage of fodder which was being sold by the traders at exorbitant rates of more than Rs 2.50 per kg. He said the state government had not taken steps for providing adequate relief to affected farmers. Mr Hooda said in the absence of normal monsoon this year, kharif crops of paddy, cotton, bajra were on the verge of destruction. He asked the state government to take steps to save kharif crops and to provide fodder for the cattle. Mr Hooda also criticised the state government for its failure to check the fast deteriorating law and order situation in the state. He said ever since Mr Chautala took over as Chief Minister by "horse-trading and hoodwinking" people of the state, the law and order situation had deteriorated further. Mr Hooda alleged that
activists of the Indian National Lok Dal patronised by
the powers that be in the state, were taking law into
their hands and harassing and intimidating government
officials and terrorising the poor, Dalits and other
weaker sections. |
Three policemen suspended REWARI, Sept 20 — Two Assistant Sub-Inspectors, Azim Khan and Sis Ram, and Constable Bijender Singh have been suspended and sent to the lines by Mr A.S. Chawla, SP, here on charges of negligence in duty pertaining to the Chief Minister's tour here on September 16. Mr Lachhman Das, DSP, Kosli, has been deputed to conduct a departmental inquiry against them. ASI Sis Ram and Constable Bijender Singh, who were on traffic control duty at the Ambedkar Chowk, gave a signal to the Chief Minister's motorcade which moved towards the PWD rest house, while as per schedule it was to go to Mandola village where the Chief Minister Mr O.P. Chautala, was to pay homage to Havildar Sadhu Ram. The motorcade immediately left the rest house and sped to Mandola. Prior to his departure to Mandola when the Chief Minister reportedly expressed displeasure over it, Mr P.K. Mehta, IG, Gurgaon Range, asked Mr Chawala to take a serious note of it. ASI Azim Khan was in the police vehicle which was the pilot car of the Chief Minister's motorcade from Masani to Mandola. Earlier the Chief Minister had halted at Masani village. Meanwhile, Mr Wazir
Singh, President of the Rewari district unit of Haryana
Police Sangthan has demanded the immediate revocation of
the suspension orders of the above three police officials
saying that they had acted according to the instructions
in a circular issued by the SP with regard to the Chief
Minister's tour programme. |
Rai police books 2 polling
officers SONEPAT, Sept 20 — The Rai police has registered a case under Section 134 of the People's Representation Act against two polling officers, D.K. Bhardwaj, Senior Medical Officer, Kharkhauda, and K.C. Gupta, on the charge of not depositing on time the ballot boxes of booths number 131 and 133 set up at Nahra village in the district. According to official sources, this followed the report of the District Electoral Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner, Mr Anil Kumar, alleging the delayed receipt of the ballot boxes at the district headquarters. Earlier, the District Electoral Officer had got conducted an inquiry into the complaint which was found correct. This is the first-ever
case registered in the district on the behalf of the
District Electoral Officer. |
Farmers seek probe against
officials SONEPAT, Sept 20 — Resentment prevails among paddy growers of Sonepat, Gohana, Kharkhauda and Ganaur towns against the non-purchase of paddy by various official procurement agencies. Many paddy growers alleged that their entire paddy was being purchased by the owners of the rice shellers at throw away prices. They alleged that they were being forced to sell paddy to them. Some paddy growers said that a high-level probe into the racket would expose the misdeeds of the officials who were said to be in league with the rice-sheller owners in the district. Meanwhile, the harvesting of paddy is in full swing in the rural areas of the district because of uncertain weather conditions. Many farmers pointed out that scanty rainfall during the monsoons and inadequate and erratic power supply for running tubewells had already affected the paddy crop in the area. Representatives of
various farmers organisations today urged the Chief
Minister, Mr Om Parkash Chautala to order the authorities
concerned to procure the paddy and to ensure remunerative
price for it. |
Three dacoits arrested YAMUNANAGAR, Sept 20 — With the arrest of three persons, the police claims to have busted an inter-state gang involved in a number of dacoity cases. The SP, Mr K.K. Sindhu, said here today that the accused had confessed their involvement in dacoity cases at Hoshiarpur, Ropar, Shambhu, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Panipat and Sonepat. He said they had also admitted being involved in several chain-snatching cases. A pistol was also recovered from them. Mr Sindhu said on the night of September 11, four car-borne miscreants reached Madhu petrol station here and made an attempt to loot cash. However, the staff resisted the attempt and in a scuffle that ensued, Joga Singh of Jalandhar was injured, who was admitted to a local hospital. The other three, however, escaped. Later two gang members,
Devinder Singh and Nikka, of Jalandhar who came to
enquire about Joga Singh were arrested. |
GJU council approves syllabi HISAR, Sept 20 — A meeting of the Academic Council of Guru Jambeshwar University was held here under the chairmanship of the Vice-Chancellor. The council approved the syllabi of examination of M.Tech (environmental science and engineering), M.Sc applied mathematics, M.Sc food processing and technology, M.Sc applied physics and M.Sc applied psychology for 1999-2000. In order to provide wider job opportunities and admissions for higher education in other universities, the nomenclature of the Department of Laser Technology has been changed to department of applied physics. The councl has decided to hold supplementary examinations every year in December-January and May-June for students who fail in the final year. This will save them a year as they will not need to wait for the annual examinations. The council has also decided to provide research scholarships, stipends, medals and prizes to meritorious students. A sum of Rs 6.52 lakh is proposed to be earmarked for this purpose. The University Faculty
Club was also inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor, Mr
Dharamvir. |
Sonepat faces water crisis SONEPAT, Sept 20 — The residents here complain that they have been facing shortage in water supply and whatever supply they get is contaminated. Sometimes there is no supply for several days, they complained. Leakage in sluicevalves in different parts of the city, particularly in Ram Bazar area, has become a common feature and this has virtually led to a water crisis. Many residents alleged that the Superintending Engineer and other officials of the Public Health Department were not bothered about the complaints regarding the drinking water crisis and choked sewers. They feared an outbreak of water-borne diseases in the city if the contamination was not checked. The residents also complained that desilting of sewers was normally not done and water pipes had corroded. Moreover, the water comes at a very low pressure. Even people living on the ground floor do not get water. They have to fill up their underground tanks and then pump it to the overhead tank. The Residents Welfare
Association also expressed its grave concern over the
continuous water crisis in the city and demanded
immediate suspension of the SE and other officials
concerned. |
Plea to expedite canal water
scheme AMBALA, Sept 20 — Several social industrial and trade organisations have urged the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, to expedite the canal-based water supply scheme for Ambala Cantonment. In this regard a meeting was held in the cantonment under the chairmanship of Mr N.C. Jain, Chairman, Ambala Traders Federation, and a resolution passed. The resolution said the Haryana government had already released Rs 5 crore to the Public Health Department to get the water supply from the Narwana canal branch through underground pipelines. But thework had not started so far. It was also decided at
the meeting that a deputation would meet the Chief
Minister in this regard. |
2 of family killed in road mishap HISAR, Sept 20 — Two members of a family were killed and 15 injured when a jeep in which they were travelling dashed against a tree near Bhirani village, 40 km from here, yesterday. The victims have been identified as Amilal (40) and Rajni (4). One of the injured was admitted to Rohtak Medical College, while the others were admitted to a local hospital. According to
information, a family from Dhuri in Punjab was on its way
to Goga Meri, a religious place in Rajasthan. |
Development works
‘delayed’ SONEPAT, Sept 20 — The General Secretary fo the Haryana Vikas Party, Mr Rajiv Jain, today alleged that people of the Sonepat Assembly constituency were discriminated by the present government and all development works undertaken by the previous government had been stopped on one pretext or the other. In a press note, he alleged that the on-going works for the repair of roads here and the neighbouring villages had been held up despite being sanctioned by the previous Bansi Lal government. He showed the copies of sanctioned projects of various development works and charged the present government with adopting step-motherly treatment towards the residents of this Assembly constituency. He appealed to the
people to remain united and prepare themselves for the
struggle on the issue. |
Man gets life term FARIDABAD, Sept 20 — Mr P.L. Goyal, Additional District and Sessions Judge, today sentenced Janak of Behbalpur to life imprisonment for the murder of Shobha Ram of Dayalpur on August 13, 1997. According to the prosecution, Shobha Ram was attacked with knives by Janak and seven others. During the trial, all
others except Janak were acquitted for want of
identification. Janak was, however, held guilty as he was
specifically named in the case. |
3 killed in road mishap PANIPAT, Sept 20 — Three persons were killed and one injured in a collision between a van and an auto rickshaw near Shahpur village on the Panipat-Gohana road, about 22 km from here, yesterday. The deceased have been identified as Ram Pal, Prem and Ram Ratti, all of Pulri village. The injured has been
admitted to a hospital and is stated to be out of danger.
A case has been registered. |
"Farm darshan" concludes HISAR, Sept 19 — A "farm darshan" concluded at CCS Haryana Agricultural University here yesterday. Thousands of farmers from different districts of Haryana as well as Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi took part in it. The theme was the integrated management of soil nutrients. Besides educating farmers about this important aspect, they were provided improved seeds of the recommended crop varieties for the ensuing rabi season. Experts took the farmers
to the research farm for a demonstration of plots of the
latest kharif crop varities raised with scientific
techniques. |
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