For a change, cops feel embarrassed
Our Correspondent

Rohtak, November 1
Participants at a police-public meeting organised today at Meham, 35 km from here, charged the Inspector of the highway police patrol with harassing travellers and extorting money from them on one pretext or the other. The meeting was organised as part of the month-long “ Operation Sadhbhavana”, which was launched today by the Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr Atar Singh Ahlawat.

Speaking on the occasion, he urged policemen to be public-friendly while discharging their duty.

“Operation Sadhbhavana” has been launched in the state to improve relations between the police and the public.

The district police chief looked embarrassed when it was alleged that policemen harassed the poor during “nakabandi” and while patrolling the national highway.

Mr Sahi Ram a former Principal, said policemen needed to improve their image.

Mr Wazir Singh, president, INLD Halqa committee, called for effective police patrolling in rural areas also, particularly during night hours.

Mr Ahlawat assured the participants that he would convey their grievances to the government. “I am confident that the problem will be solved soon” he said.

Many participants compained that the police was not very keen to solve theft cases. A large number of such cases were lying pending, they said.

Ms Santosh complained that her husband was harassing her for the past over two years and the police was not paying heed to her requests. Mr Ahlawat directed the SHO, Meham, to solve the complainant’s problem.

Mr Ahlawat announced that similar meetings would be held at Lakhan Majra on November 3 and Mokhra on November 5. He said a seminar would be held at Rohtak on November 12 on police-related topics. Municipal councillors, intellectuals, principals of various colleges and other prominent citizens would be invited to participate in the seminar, he said.

He said every SHO in the district had been asked to call a meeting of women sarpanches, panches and other women activists in their respective areas to educate them about their legal rights. 

Chautala announces four food parks
Our Correspondent

Sirsa, November 1
Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, addressing a gathering after inaugurating Chaudhary Devi Lal Memorial Sugar Mill at Panniwala Motta village, in this district said here today that the government would develop four food parks in the state. Congratulating the people on Haryana Day, Balmiki Jayanti and Sharad Purnima, the Chief Minister said that this sugar mill had been set up to encourage farmers adopt to grow sugarcane. He said food parks would be developed at Sirsa, Narnaul, Jhajjar and Rai. 

The Chief Minister claimed 37 per cent increase in the revenue collection which the government would use for development. 

Earlier at a function of the Arhtiyas Association at local Janata Bhavan the Chief Minister said that Haryana would be self-reliant in power sector in three years and with 3000 MW of additional power generation in this period the state would sell power to other states. He said that the Centre had sanctioned three power stations of 500 MW each. These would be set up at Hisar, Faridabad and Yamunanagar. Also seventh and eighth units of 250 MW capacity to be set up at Panipat and 350 MW of power will be produced by the refinery being set up in the state. 

He also announced that each person in all 7000 villages of the state would get 70 litres of potable water. Earlier, he inaugurated a rice mill at Ding village in the district where he announced three more rice mills which would be set up at Rania in Sirsa district, Fatehabad and Narwana at the cost of Rs 9 crore. He also inaugurated new complex of the Haryana Agriculture Industries Corporation and a community centre. He also unveiled the statue of Chaudhary Devi Lal at Nathusari Chopta village in the district. 

ROHTAK: The CPM in a statement issued on the occasion of Haryana Day, regretted that the governments had been resorting to self-praise and making false claims of development and not accepting grave challenges facing common people.

Mr Inderjit Singh state secretary CPM said that ruling parties and their leaders in Haryana had neither long term planning nor political will to solve basic problems. They had been serving interests of a handful of privileged and socially dominant sections of society at the cost of majority of have-nots and poor, he said.

He said, agriculture sector was in deep crisis, industry was in doldrums and employment generation at a stand-still. Liberalisation and privatisation had dealt a severe blow and aggravated the situation, he said.

The party has called upon people of Haryana to create a pro-people political alternative to get rid of self-serving feudal type political leaders who had monopolised the political powers.

Jind college wins Haryana Day shield
Our Correspondent

Kurukshetra, November 1
Government postgraduate College, Jind, has won the Haryana Day state-level running shield. The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, gave away the prizes to the winners yesterday in the university auditorium on the concluding day of the three-day State-level festival being organised by the Department of Youth and Cultural Affairs of Kurukshetra University to commemorate Haryana Day.

This year, the festival was dedicated to the memory of Chaudhary Devi Lal.

The Chief Minister announced that a Haryana Cultural Academy would be set up here shortly to promote the Haryanvi culture. The government was trying its best to provide basic facilities to the people of the state as desired by Chaudhary Devi Lal who devoted his entire life for the deprived section of the society, he added.

He called upon the youth to sustain their culture, civilisation and heritage. He assured that the state would provide all facilities to the students.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Mr R.S. Chaudhry, said the state had progressed only due to the sacrifices made by its founding father Chaudhary Devi Lal.

The Director, Youth and Cultural Affairs Department of the University, Mr Anoop Lather, and the Chief Secretary, Mr L.M. Goyal, also spoke.

Those who attended the function included Haryana Transport Minister, Mr Ashok Kumar Arora, Mr Subhash Goyal, Minister, Political Adviser to the Chief Minister, Mr Sher Singh Barshami, Mr Vaid Kapoor Chand, MLA, Shahabad.

The results of the various competitions held during the festival are as under;

Haryanvi declamation contest: Anju of A.I. Jat Heroes Memorial College, Rohtak — first; Anil Deswal of Government P.G. College, Jind — second; and Vishal of Government College, Gharaunda — third. 

Haryanvi tit-bits competition: Jagdeep of A.I. Jat Heroes Memorial College, Rohtak, — first; Ram Paul of DAV College, Cheeka, — second; and Ashok of RKSD College, Kaithal and Nidhi of the Government College for Women, Rohtak — third.

Haryanvi lok geet: Vijaya Pal of U.T.D., Kurukshetra — first; Hoshiar Singh of the University College of Education, Kurukshetra University and Ved Parkash of the SLDAV College of Education, Ambala City — second; and Rishi of Government PG College, Jind, and Swati of the Government College for Women, Rohtak — third.

 Haryanvi bhajan: Ved Parkash of the SLDAV College of Education, Ambala city — first; Hoshiar Singh of Education College, Kurukshetra, and Aman Kumar of Government P.G. College, Jind — second; and Sushil of B.P.R. College, Kurukshetra, and Surinder of Shah Satnamji Boys College, Sirsa — third. 

Mono-acting: Pawan of Government P.G. College, Jind — first; Ram Pal of DAV College, Cheeka — second; and Ramesh Kumar of Gaur Brahman Degree College, Rohtak — third.

Mimicry: Deepak of Dayanand P.G. College, Hisar — first; Parveen of Arya College, Panipat second; and Azad of Government P.G. College, Karnal, and Ashok Kumar of RKSD College, Kaithal — third. 

Haryanvi raagni: Archana of UTP, Kurukshetra University — first; Suman of Hindu Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Jind — second; and Mamta of UCK — third.

Haryanvi folk instrument (solo): Azad Sharma of Government PG College, Jind — first; Deepika of Government College, Karnal, and Vijay Pal of UTP — second; and Rakesh of Government College, Gohana — third. 

Haryanvi folk costumes (woman): Sunil Mann of Education College Kuk — first; Savita of A.I. Jat Heroes Memorial College, Rohtak — second; and Mamta of the F.C. College for Women, Hisar — third. 

Haryanvi folk costumes (man): Jasbir of Government PG College, Jind — first; Sandeep of Government College, Gohana — second; and Ram Phal of N.M. Govt. College, Hansi and Surinder of Gaur Brahman Degree College, Rohtak — third.

Haryanvi solo dance (man): Bheem Singh of UTD, KUK, — first; Satish of UTD, MDU, Rohtak — second; and Gobind of Government P.G. College, Jind — third. 

16 poor girls married off
Our Correspondent

Shahabad, November 1
Marriage of 16 girls belonging to poor families, most of them from the Scheduled Castes, was solemnised at a function organised by Rishi Markandeshwar Mandir Sabha on the occasion of ‘Sharad Poornima’ today. The function was presided over by Mr Vaid Kapoor Chand Sharma, local MLA. Mr Anil Rajdan, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power and Energy, who was the chief guest in the function, the temple body president, Mr Kesar Dass Gambhir and Mr Kapoor Chand Sharma blessed the newly weds.

The marriages were solemnised at the Markandeshwar Temple complex by Mr Prahlad Mishra, head priest of the temple.

All members of the marriage parties and relatives of the brides, were served tea and lunch. Beds, beddings, blankets, shawls clothes, silver ornaments utensils, stoves, clocks and other articles of daily use were given to the girls. The president of the temple body said this was the 15th mass marriage function organised at the temple complex and the number of marriages conducted by the body, rose to 260 today.

GM (Northern Railway) inspects Ambala division
Tribune News Service

Ambala, November 1
General Manager, Northern Railway, Mr S. Dashrathi inspected the Ambala division. of Northern Railway today.

Besides laying the foundation for a new building at the Ambala Cantt railway station for providing better facilities to passengers, Mr Dashrathi heard the grievances of the passengers and railway pensioners. From Ambala, Mr Dashrathi went to Kalka for inspection.

Northern Railway Pensioners Forum Ambala, in a memorandum stated that as per the recommendations of the Fifth Pay Commission the pension of pre-1986 retiree widows is to be revised in a time-bound period. But it is regretted that even after a lapse of more than three years the pension of the pensioner/widowers whose records are in New Delhi, has not been revised in most of the cases. Even the pension adalat of Delhi division has failed to give any relief.” The railway pensioners requested that their records be sent to Ambala.

Ambala-Saharanpur Passengers Welfare Union has demanded the extension of 2 UL or 4 UL train upto Saharanpur.

A deputation comprising Mr Bhupinders Singh, Mr Jagtar Singh, Mr Gurdev Singh, Mr Roshan Lal and Mr Sohan Singh complained that there was no passenger train between 6.45 p.m. to 4 a.m. next day from Ambala to Saharanpur.

Bandh will be successful: Cong
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 1
Both Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, chief of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, and Mr Bhajan Lal, leader of the CLP, today said that the statewide “bazar bandh” tomorrow would be a complete success.

“The party MLAs had suggested that a statewide bandh call should be given in protest against the INLD government’s house tax policy. We are getting a good response from people and there is no doubt that they are on our side,” Mr Bhajan Lal told TNS. He added that the successful observation of the strike would also help the Congress legislators in their attempt to take on the INLD in the Assembly session beginning here on November 8.

Mr Hooda claimed that all associations of traders and merchants supported the bandh call.

MLA cremated
Our Correspondent

Yamunanagar, November 1
Cremation of Congress MLA Dr J.P. Sharma was largely attended here today afternoon. He died yesterday evening. Dr Sandeep Sharma eldest son of the MLA lit the pyre. Body of Mr Sharma, was wrapped in Congress flag. Om Prakash Chautala, Chief Minister, Haryana, Union Minister of State for Home, I.D. Swami, Mr Bhajan Lal former Chief Minister, and Leader of the Opposition of Haryana, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda president HPCC, Mr Satbir Singh Kadiyan Speaker Haryana Assembly, Mr Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, Mr Subhash Goel, Dr M.L. Ranga all Ministers.