Officers donate one-day salary for martyrs’
Chandigarh: All the officers and officials of Haryana Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department have donated their one-day salary to dependents of martyrs of recent Pulwama attack at Jammu and Kashmir, and those who attained martyrdom in army operation conducted after the attack. Acheque amounting to Rs 45 lakh, including Rs one lakh each to dependents of martyrs, was presented to Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, OP Dhankar in the presence of Additional Chief Secretary of the Department, Navraj Sandhu, Director General Ajit Balaji Joshi and other senior officers, here.
Special camps to register eligible voters
Chandigarh: In view of the ensuing Lok Sabha elections, special camp is being organized in Haryana on February 23 and 24 to register each and every eligible person as voter, who aged 18 years as on January 1. A spokesman said that if any eligible person is not registered as voter yet, he/she can apply in Form-6 with two passport size photographs and Residence Proof both online at www.nvsp.in and offline. All the BLOs will be present at their polling stations for facilitation. All political parties are also requested to appoint Booth Level Agents, if not appointed, and instruct them to be present at the polling stations for help to make error free voter list.
Two held, 3 kg opium recovered in Sirsa
Chandigarh: Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) of Haryana Police have seized three kg opium in district Sirsa and arrested two persons in this connection. The value of the seized drug in the market is estimated to lakh of rupees. A spokesman said, the accused were arrested after getting a specific information during patrolling in bus stand area of Sirsa. The arrested accused were identified as Nakul and Mahender, both resident of Kureed, district Chatra, Jharkhand. A case under NDPS Act had been registered against them in Civil Lines Police Station, Sirsa. They would be taken on remand by producing them in the court so that name of others involved in this racket of drug peddling could be unearthed.
Hand over parking lots : Bansal
Chandigarh: Former Union Minister and ex-city MP Pawan Kumar Bansal has demanded that the management of parking in the city be handed over to the Market Associations and Residents’ Welfare Associations (RWAs), as the case may be. Terming the announcement by the city MP Kirron Kher about reduction in the parking charges as too little-too late, Bansal said, the decision was taken only because of people anger over the Administration and Municipal Corporation messing up the parking issue and confirmed his earlier view that the contractor had been unduly favoured by permitting four-fold increase in the charges, first from Rs 5 to Rs 10 and then to Rs 20 in a very short time.