12 Sonepat residents felicitated

Sonepat: On the 46th foundation day of Sonepat district, Haryana Women and Child Development Minister Kavita Jain honoured 12 persons during the Sonepat Ratan Award programme organised by the Sarthi Jan Sewa Charitable Trust here on Saturday. Besides honouring Olympic medallist wrestler Bajrang Punia with Sonepat Ratan Award 2018 and Annu Kumari (IAS) as the Personality of the Year 2018, 10 others — Dr NK Mittal for health services, Dharam Prakash Arya for education, Deepak Gupta for setting up blood bank, Anand Sharma as union activist, Sangeeta Dabas for administrative services, Lt Vaibhav Garg as youth icon, Kamlesh Malik for lifetime achievement, Satyawan Bhatia for social work, Sonia Arora for serving disabled children and Pawan Taneja for community welfare activities — were honoured as Top 10 Personalities of Sonepat Awards 2018.

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Rafi remembered on birth anniv

Ambala: To commemorate the 94th birth anniversary (December 24) of legendary singer of Hindi film industry, Mohammad Rafi, a musical (Rafi) night was organised by Ambala Musical Club in association with Haryana Kala Parishad on December 18. The event was organised at the SD College auditorium in Ambala Cantonment. The chairman of the club, Dr Naveen Gulati, said that 11 singers from the region performed on Rafi’s songs. This was the third edition of the Rafi night in Ambala. Additional Chief Secretary, Haryana, SS Prasad and CPMG Ranju Prasad attended the event and also performed there. Gulati said, “The club has been promoting budding singers by organising such events and no fee is charged for participation.”

Stones of six link roads laid

Sonepat: In order to improve road connectivity in rural areas of the district, Chairperson of the National Council of the State Agriculture Marketing Boards, Krishna Gahlawat, laid the foundation stones of six village-to-village link roads in the district on Saturday and Sunday. To be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 7.5 crore, these link roads will be from village Aterna to Manoli, Bhaira Bankipur to Manoli and Lakholi to Khewra in Gannaur sub-division and from Naina Tatarpur to Bohla, Trauly to Salarpur Majra and Gamri to Niyat in Gohana sub-division. – 

DC office gets ISO certification

Jhajjar: The Office of Deputy Commissioner (DC), Jhajjar, has been granted ISO 9001:2015 certification for providing good administrative and public services. The certificate has been issued after assessing the quality management system of the office. Former Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan and Haryana Agriculture Minister Om Prakash Dhankar presented the certificate to DC Sonal Goel at 36th state-level livestock exhibition that concluded on Sunday. The certificate is valid for the next three years. “It is a matter of great satisfaction that my office got ISO certification which not only ensures that the office fulfils the global standard required for any organisation but also helps in building public trust on administration, besides fixing responsibility and accountability of the person concerned,” said Sonal.

Road show by newly elected Mayor 

Karnal: Three days after her victory in the Karnal Municipal Corporation, newly elected Mayor Renu Bala Gupta on Saturday took out a procession to thank the voters of the city. She assured the residents of overall development of the city. Gupta, accompanied by Minister of State for Mining Nayab Singh Saini, Minister of State for Food and Supplies Karan Dev Kamboj, Thanesar MLA Subhash Sudha, Nilokheri MLA Bhagwan Das Kabirpanthi and others, was welcomed at several places by the residents with flowers and sweets. She left for Delhi after leaving the procession in the middle as party president Amit Shah had called all the newly elected Mayors there. Gupta met the party president and assured him that she would take the party policies to the people and she would ensure overall development. “It was the victory of the development works being done by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana,” she said. She also met party state affairs incharge Anil Jain and others. She had a meeting with the CM a day after the victory.

Ambala man wins second prize at national photo competition

Ambala: Ambala resident Maninder Singh Sodhi has won the second prize in a national photography competition organised by the Department of Posts. The theme of the competition was ‘Holiday destinations of India-2018’. Entries were invited in May from all over India for the competition. On December 18, the second prize, carrying an award of Rs 25,000, was given to Sodhi. The department also issued a Rs 15 stamp depicting the famous City Palace of Udaipur, Rajasthan, which was shot by Sodhi, at an event organised in Ambala. Sodhi had also won the first prize in a photography competition organised by Punjab Tourism in 2017.

New banking system launched

Yamunanagar: A new kind of RTGS system of banking was recently launched here by the team of Veritas Financial Services, a leading business conglomerate based in Delhi. Dr Uchit Kapoor, a leading academician and researcher, said that the new design uses four-tier architecture which increases the speed and accuracy of inward and outward remittances. Commercial implementation of this technique will commence from next year.

Elderly lawyers felicitated

Rohtak: Justice Rajbir Singh Sehrawat, Judge at the Punjab and Haryana High Court, felicitated 75 advocates of Rohtak division comprising Rohtak, Jhajjar, Sonepat, Charkhi Dadri and Bhiwani districts, who have completed 50 years in the legal profession. He presented them mementos and shawls. The felicitation ceremony, organised at Rohtak recently, was presided over by Dr Vijender Singh Ahlawat, Chairman, Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana. Ahlawat said this was the first occasion of its kind in the state.

Campaign to make Hisar free of posters commences

Hisar: A group of local residents under the aegis of non-governmental organisation (NGO) Hamara Pyara Hisar launched a campaign on Sunday to make the town free of posters. Commercial institutes and individuals have defaced the town by pasting posters at most public places including the walls of HUDA Town Park, bus stand, railway station and main markets. The municipal corporation is supposed to take action against these violators for defacement. But it has failed to do so. Though the MC authorities launch occasional drives against illegal hoardings which come up at roundabouts and along the roads, the defacement by way of posters hardly catches the attention of the authorities. Sushil Kharinta, a social activist, said that around 30 members of the Hamara Pyara Hisar group embarked on the drive in the morning and made the Town Park free of posters. Rakesh Agrawal, another social activist, said that they are preparing a list of institutes and individuals who are posting the posters on the walls and would urge the MC authorities to get police cases registered against them under the Haryana Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, 1989. The Superintending Engineer of the MC, Ramjilal, too joined the campaign and cleaned the public places with the NGO members.