Karnal admn swoops down on illegal colonies

A high drama prevailed when the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) officials slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 each on property dealers and revenue officials initiated criminal proceedings during surprise raid by the deputy commissioner Neelam Pardeep Kansi to check illegal constructions in the city on Wednesday.

Accompanied by enforcement staff of the district town and country planning (DTCP) department, revenue officials and the UHBVN staff headed by Kasni swooped down on Durga, Rajivpuram and Dayanand colonies which had come up in the periphery of the city area.

As the district administration team reached the colonies, the property dealers went elusive after closing the offices. While hundreds of families living there were in a fix when officials asked them to provide the documents to prove legality of their accommodation.
Via: TOI

Sighting this incidents and couple of similar one, which happened in Model Town, the sky rocketing property  prices in the city, seemed to get a break in near future.


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Student thrashed for asking more food

Asking for extra food turned out to be sordid affair for a Class-VII girl student who was brutally thrashed by her teacher at Government Senior Secondary School of Bayana village of Indri sub-division on Wednesday.

Errant teacher Raj Kumar not only thrashed Anu but also threw the food bowl on her face, the victim`s family alleged. Ironically, the incident happened within the days after the Haryana government announced to extend the facility of mid-day meals to the girl students of classes XI and XII.

The happening came to light on Thursday after the victim`s maternal uncle and relatives staged agitation outside the school demanding immediate action against the schoolteacher. Though the education department made a foiled attempt to cover up the issue, administration ordered a probe which would be carried out by a team headed by SDM Dinesh Kumar.

Read More: TimesofIndia

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Issues : HUDA Karnal Water & Sewerage Deptt

Issues :

This new section will focus on general issues and specific ones (of particular colony) which we feel should be published so that authorities could recognize the problem and find a suitable solution.

Here is a Resident's Complaints regarding HUDA Karnal Water & Sewerage Deptt. which i came across through this link.

"We are a resident of Sector 13 at H.No. 1456, in Karnal city. We are regularily complaining about the blocked sewerage connection from the main hole itself but no one is listening or trying to correct the sewerage. We put various entries in their complaint log book also but we are still suffering form the last 10 days. Can anyone concerned can get it done by the concerned authorities?"

I hope the concerned authorities will look into the problem and solve it at the earliest.

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Construction of Medical College Delayed

Even after Five months of Formal announcement made by The Haryan C.M., Mr. Hooda, the commencement date of construction of Kalpana Chawla Medical Collage is still ambivalent.

As one of the National News paper “according to the planning of Health Deptt., the classes should have commenced, but till now the foundation stone have also not been laid…!”

Refer the cutting here to read the full story in Hindi.

Photo Source:Punjab Kesri

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Protest against School fee Hike

“Abhibhavak Ekta Manch” along with various other organizations of State, has been organizing a state level protest against the school fee hike.

According to them this hike is inappropriate and is the result of liaison between Educational authorities and Book sellers.

According to a survey the school fees during last couple of year has doubled.

The Banner below will give you an idea of the movement being carried on.

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Karnal Roasts at 43 Degrees

Roasting Heat:
If Wednesday was bad,Thursday was worse. The mercury rose from a terrible 42.1 degrees Celsius to a cruel 43 degrees Celsius in Karnal.
And there is no end in sight yet to the punishing heat.

The minimum temperature also rose to 26.8 degrees Celsius, up from 26.1 degrees Celsius. Both the maximum and minimum temperatures are hovering at seven degrees above normal.

The sizzling heat left the roads and business places almost empty as people preferred to sit in the comfort of their homes. Coolers and ACs also failed to bring much relief to the people.

Power Cuts:
To add to the discomfort level,the power supply of the region is also not proper. In Karnal city there is a power cut of more then 6-8hrs.
God knows what will happen after the Elections...!!!

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Not an Easy Road(ways) for Karnal…!!!

About a decade ago 190 buses were sanctioned for Karnal depot to provide comfortable journey to the passengers. While in the last decade population of the city has increased manifold. Out of these 190 buses about 30 were declared obsolete few years ago but no replacement were made. As a result, there is an acute shortage of Buses from Karnal depot.
Due to this shortage most of the people living in nearby villages and other areas around Karnal have to use private transport buses. Also, most of the Roadways buses from Karnal depot ply on long routes rather on small routs in surrounding areas. Daily passengers including office goers and students face a lot of problem while traveling to nearby areas by bus. While private buses never follow any time table, Roadways buses are hardly seen on the roads.
Due to all this the daily scene out side Karnal bus stand is somewhat like in this picture….!
More buses should be provided to Karnal depot so that common people of Karnal doesn’t suffer unnecessarily.

Smoking Thrills....!

Yes..! to most of the youngsters 'Smoking Thrills', they start it because they think it looks 'cool', under pressure from friends or just to impress girls...!!

It is one of the biggest ongoing debates, if the govt. really wants to put a ban on smoking then why don't they shut the Cigarette companies.

Here is a great writ-up, from on of our 'Karnalite', Mr. Vaibhav Arora, published in blogs of Zee News. The writer has written a great lampoon targeting all the 'proud smokers'.

The Write-up goes as under:

"Since my early childhood, as far back as I can recall, parents and elders have always asked me to stay away from smoking. It wasn’t hard as nobody in my family smokes and so I did not realize how ‘cool’ smoking can actually make you look- until I joined college where a lot of people I saw around would have a cigarette in hand, even though most of them were doing it under pressure from friends or just to impress girls; not knowing what it would eventually do to their health."

Click here to read the full article:

Also read:

what other bloggers have to say about no smoking.
Aamir Khan endorsing no-smoking.
Ajay Devgan fined for smoking.



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Long queues, panic buying at petrol pumps at Karnal

With the nationwide strike of officers of 14 oil PSUs entering the second day on Thursday,
there was panic among consumers as long queues of vehicles were seen at petrol pumps across the Nation.
Karnal is not an exception to this.The pic here showes long queues at petrol pumps across karnal





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Cleanliness and Godliness

I came across this write-up, the author, Mr.GKS Virk, is from Karnal now living in Switzerland.
In very simple word he has described the apathy of people 'towards general cleanliness of public places' and 'a lack of sense of respect for public spaces'.

Here is a small Para from the write-up:

"The one thing that has stuck me across all my trips home over these last 9 years is the fact that a lot has changed and a lot has remained constant. In my opinion, the key changes have been in the area of general infrastructure development. The number of vehicles on the road has increased exponentially, there are many more avenues for entertainment and leisure (even my little home town now has an FM radio station!?). The average person on the street seems to be happier and confident. The changes have been across almost facets of life.

In spite of all these changes, what has remained constant across all these years are the apathy towards general cleanliness of public places and a lack of sense of respect for public spaces. The personal hygiene of an average middle class Indian is of a fairly high standard. However, when it come to maintaining the cleanliness and hygiene of public spaces, apart from religious spaces, every other common area is used as a garbage dump with impunity. As a nation, we seem to have singularly failed in maintaining even a minimum standard of cleanliness in our public spaces."

Read the full article here

There should be some concrete measures to be taken from the official as well as from the Citizens.

Also Read: Conserving the Enviornment in Karnal

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Bomb Hoax in Karnal

The Police was on a high alert following a hoax call of a bomb lying here on main kunjpura road, in karnal.


The suitcase, with a number lock, was found on the scooter of Amit Kumar, who had parked in a gully between two garments shops, while he had gone to bank.On returning he was astonished to see the suitcase and enquired from the nerby shopkeepers about it & when no one came forward to claim the suitcase, fear and panic gripped the people.
Suspecting a bomb in the suitcase, people informed the police, DSP surinder reached the spot and a bomb disposal squad was called from Madhuban. People heaved a sigh of relief when the suitcase was found empty.





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Parking crisis on Kunjpura Road

The Kunjpura road, right from Sabzi Mandi chowk till Hospital chowk, attracts a large crowd due to

Huge stores mainly Garment stores,

Banks like HDFC, Bank of Punjab (also HDFC now) & Bank of India

Kunjpura Mandir, Mahabirdal Mandir,

Head Post Office,

And Mahabirdal Hospital.

It as also is the main road for commuters, going to Dyal singh colony, Subzi mandi, Nehru palace and Karan Gate etc.

On a busy day sometimes it takes more then 20 min to cross this 500mt Road…!!!

The main reason for this traffic jam is unavailability of parking space on virtually every store, all of these stores are raised in the residential houses most of them without any CLU (change of Land Use).

It is difficult to predict the future of these huge stores if the situation is not taken into control at this stage. The parking area at the back of Mahabirdal hospital should be developed and there is a need of revolutionary methods like Underground parking.

The picture shows unauthorized parking in front of HDFC Bank, Karnal.

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