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December 17, 2001, Chandigarh, India  
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We will expose Pak role: George Chautala launches D-net
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Dangi accorded warm welcome KALKA DIARY
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We will expose Pak role: George Panipat, December 16 The attack has been
masterminded by the ISI and India will provide sufficient proof to Pakistan and the international community, to expose Pakistan’s nefarious design in aiding and abetting terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, Mr Fernandes told reporters here. The Defence Minister was here to participate in a convention organised by the Khadi Ashram in which delegates from Punjab, Haryana,
Rajasthan and UP participated. Commenting on Pakistan’s allegations that Indian intelligence agencies were behind the attack to give a bad name to Pakistan, Mr Fernandes said no well-meaning person would believe the Pakistan charge as the neighbouring country’s dubious role had been exposed in the cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and Afghanistan. The Pakistani allegations were virtual acceptance of its role in the attack on Parliament. Claiming that the security agencies had gunned over 1,800 militants since January this year, he said the heavy cross-border firing in Kashmir had virtually come to an end, except in the Akhnoor sector, where intermittent firing is in progress. Mr Fernandes claimed that most of the terrorist training camps in PoK and
Pakistan had been moved to the interior areas after the September 13 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Reiterating India’s resolve to end
terrorism, Mr Fernandes warned that India would not take the Pakistani proxy war lying down adding that it had means to put down, terrorism with an iron hand. |
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Chautala launches D-net Panchkula, December 16 This was stated by Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, while addressing a function after launching the D-net programme at Mini Secretariat here this morning. With the launch of this programme, Panchkula has become the first district in the state where all administrative work has been computerised. Mr Chautala said that this project would cover four more districts by March next year — Hisar , Gurgaon, Rohtak and Sirsa. ‘‘Thus the state would emerge as the first state to provide a number of services at a single window under the indigenously-designed computer software New Agent of Information- District Level Integrated Services of Haryana for All (NAI- DISHA). Information on 25 integrated services of different kinds will be available at tehsil, sub-tehsil and information kiosks,’’ he said. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Dharam Vir, Commissioner and Secretary, Information Technology, said that citizens would be benefited under District Minimum Agenda programme (D-MAP). He said that the computer software had been developed by the state unit of National Informatics Centre in consultation with district administration. The hardware was provided by HARTRON. He said that the programme would not only provide integrated services at one place in the district, but also bring transparency and efficiency in the functioning of the administration. The services being provided were details on pensions for widows, senior citizens, handicapped ; certificates of birth and death, information on collector’s rate of land, forms and procedures, database for below poverty line, electoral rolls and Antayodaya beneficiaries. He said that more than 30 departments had already been computerised. The computerisation of land records like jamabandi, mutation, khasra girdawari had been started in all districts. Among others present on the occasion were the Agriculture Minister, Mr. Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, the INLD general secretary, Mr Pradeep Chaudhary and Ambala Division Commissioner, Mr Maha Singh, the Deputy Commissioner, Ms Jyoti Arora and the Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr Manoj Yadav. Earlier, Mr Chautala also inaugurated the newly constructed building of the Agriculture Training Centre in Sector 21. This centre, set up at the cost of Rs 65 lakh, has been set up as part of the multi-sectorial World Bank-aided Human Resources Development Project. The Director, Agriculture Department, Mr Rajiv Arora, said that the centre would help in upgrading the quality and relevance of agricultural education and in service training. It would enhance the efficiency of the staff by rationalising the policies of various departments are Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Horticulture and CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. |
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Move to stop farm subsidies: Surjewala Hisar, December 16 Talking to reporters here along with a former Haryana minister Chhattarpal Singh he said the Centre already had taken these decisions which would be announced after the presentation of the next budget by which time the assembly elections in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal would be over. The decision had been kept in abeyance only because of the elections in these farmer dominated states. Mr Surjewala said the Centre was also planning to wind up the Food Corporation of India because it would have no role to play after the scrapping of the MSP system. The government would not be procuring farm produce and the FCI would therefore be redundant in that scenario. He said the farmers would then have to resort to distress sale of produce. He said the subsidies, the MSP system and other benefits to the farmers were all extended by Congress governments. However, the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre and the Chautala government in Haryana were following anti farmer policies. These policies he said spelled doom for the farmers. Criticising the farm sector financial support system he said the NABARD advanced funds to the nationalised banks at four per cent rate of interest for giving loans to farmers. However, these banks were charging anything between 18 to 24 per cent interest from the farmers against these loans. These banks were earning profits at the cost of the farmers and the NABARD. As against this urbanites were getting car and house loans at much lower of interest rates. Mr Chhattarpal Singh criticised the Chautala government for its failure to pay compensation to the farmers affected by the American-bollworm attack on cotton crop. He said this was the biggest proof of the anti farmer attitude of the Chief Minister. He also condemned the attack on Parliament by Pak based terrorists and demanded the Centre take solid steps to end terrorism. |
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Dangi accorded warm welcome Rohtak, December 16 Mr Dangi, who is facing charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act and various other Sections of the IPC, was lodged in the jail for 375 days. Thousands of his supporters and Congress men, waving Congress flags, arrived here today in tractor-trailers, chartered buses, jeeps and two-wheelers to welcome Mr Dangi. Mr Dangi was also accorded welcome at many places on his way from Panipat to Rohtak. Traffic coming from Hisar towards Delhi was diverted via Lakhan Majra as the procession moved towards Madina, the native village of Mr Dangi. The HPCC chief, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, former Pradesh Congress President Shamsher Singh Surjewala, DCC chief Shadi Lal Batra, Mr Raghuvir Singh Kadiyan and Mr Chander Mohan, MLA and son of former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal were among those who welcomed Mr Dangi on his arrival here. The PCC chief charged the Chief Minister with harassing his political opponents against whom criminals cases have been allegedly registered. The supporters of Mr Dangi presented him with a Tata Safari. |
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KALKA DIARY
Kalka *** The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has changed the telephone numbers and STD codes of seven exchanges including Kalka. According to the SDO, Telephone Exchange, the subscribers will now have to add “52” to their existing numbers, Besides Kalka, the other exchanges affected by this decision are Ambala, Nariangarh, Chhachhrauli, Jagadhari, Yamu-nanagar, and Brara. Now, subscribers who do not have the STD facility will be able to talk to telephone subscribers in these towns. According to a spokesman of the Telephone Exchange, the pulse rate under new system will remain the same, and the calls made within these exchanges will be treated as local calls. *** The residents of Kalka are facing difficulties in getting internet connections. Even if a connection is obtained after houses of effort, it gets disconnected midway, or it works so slow that it takes hours to send a single message. |
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