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Kangra SSP amongtop 3 PIOs in IndiaGaurav Bisht■gauravcharlie@yahoo.co.in

DHARAMSALA: Dr Atul Fulzele, 36-year-old Himachal Pradesh cadreIPS officer, has shot among topthree public information offi-cers (PIOs) in India.

Bringing policemen out oftheir colonial mindset hasn’tbeen easy, says the Kangra SeniorSuperintendent of Police, whoshares rank two with RajaSekhar, who fought general hos-tility among bureaucrats towardsthe Right to Information Act.

Dr Lalit Narayan Mishra isthe top-ranked PIO for his workas district inspector of schoolsin Uttar Pradesh.

Dr Fulzele will receive theRTI award on December 1 inNew Delhi from Vice-PresidentDr Hamid Ansari for his dis-tinctive work in coming out withinformation.

The Kangra SSP has tried

to introduce transparency inpolice working and give timelyinformation to the aggrievedpeople.

Fulzele was Superintendentof Police in district Una whenthe RTI Act was notified. He dis-posed of all 43 applications hehad received by supplying fulland satisfactory information toall applicants.

When contacted, Fulzele said:“I wasn’t easy to convince jun-iors officials to come out withinformation under the RTI Act.The officials feared the infor-mation might be used againstthem. I had to fight this fear andscepticism.”

Fulzele’s gentle behavior, aptfunctioning and proactiveapproach in providing peoplewith information has made himpopular in district Kangra.

He had addressed the issuesraised in nearly all RTI appli-cations and only just 11 appli-

cants have gone for appeal.Fulzele has trained subordinatesin filling out forms for the RTIapplicants and submitting replywell before the 30-day deadline.

An NGI which assesed thefunctioning of the PIOs for theRTI award says Dr Fulzelereceived 202 RTI applicationssince 2006, of which only 11 wentinto first appeal and only oneinto second. He responded tomany of the 191 applicants with-in a week and won positive feed-back from 85 per cent of the peo-ple.

Fulzele put orders and setdeadlines for the police to com-ply with Act.

Born at Neri in districtChandrapur of Maharashtra,Fulzele holds the MBBS degree.He was forensics specialist atMumbai before venturing intothe police because of his grow-ing interest in criminal investi-gation.

‘BRINGING COPS out of colonial mindset wasn’t easy’

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Gurdial is a guilty man. “It waseither use it (oxytocin) or watchmy family starve,” he said. “Iwent to many agriculturalexperts to find out what waswrong. None of them had anysolutions to offer.”

The experts all said the samething: fluctuating temperaturesand erratic rainfall were caus-ing abnormalities in crops acrossUttar Pradesh, Punjab andHaryana.

The problem is so widespreadthat oxytocin is flying off theshelves of chemists' shops acrossthe region. Some shops are evenstocking up on a buffet of steroids

that can be fed to ailing crops;a few cost as little as Rs 5 pershot. “This trend is extremelyworrying,” said Dr. GursharanSingh. Balwant Singh, a veg-etable grower in Bathinda, 150km southwest of Chandigarh,is unmoved. “There was noth-ing for us farmers to do but usethe shots — or wait for a mir-acle.”

“It is a matter of serious con-cern,” said Suchha Singh Langah,Punjab's agriculture minister.“We've ordered random sam-pling of vegetables being soldin markets. We are going tolaunch a massive drive againststeroids soon. We would never

let anyone poison our people.”“Successive studies have indi-

cated that non-germination andfailure to fructify are linked tochanging weather patterns, par-ticularly rising winter temper-atures,” said J.S. Kanwar, agro-scientist and former profes-sor at Punjab AgriculturalUniversity.

“Added to this are increasedattacks from crop diseases andblights as pests and diseasesthrive in rising temperaturesand humidity levels.” The result:failed crops and, when the cropsdo bear fruit, deformed veg-etables and fruits that have noseeds. Meanwhile, while agri-

culture experts say there is noscientific data to indicate thatsuch growth-promoting steroidsprove to be of any help for farm-ers, the farmers have beenunabatedly using the banneddrug in their fields. Last May,PAU had announced to under-take a research project to studythe impact of such growth pro-moters. The project, the resultsof which are awaited, wasannounced after farmers raisedthe issue during a monthly meet-ing.

Health experts, however, saythat Oxytocin effects are so last-ing that an injected dose of drugeven remains in certain amounts

in cooked vegetables. “Medicalopinion based on research andstudies done on women inWestern countries revealed thattraces of Oxytocin — popular-ly known as Love Harmone —were found in every woman whowas administered the drugthrough various means, includ-ing cooked fruits and vegeta-bles.”

The drug traces were large-ly found to be responsible formiscarriage and menstrual prob-lems among subjects of stud-ies, Dr Anurag Goswami,Chairman, DisciplinaryCommittee , Punjab MedicalCouncil, said.

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With effect from Monday, mobilecalls made from handsets with-out the international mobileequipment identity (IMEI)number, or calls from handsetswith zero as the IMEI number,will not be processed.The IMEI is a number unique toevery GSM (Global System forMobile Communications) phone.

6.12.092.12.09

Prime Minister ManmohanSingh will be back in Indiaon Monday, after visitingthe US and attending the

Commonwealth Heads ofGovernment Meeting atPort of Spain in Trinidad& Tobago.The visit to Washington,was the first state visit

hosted by US PresidentBarack Obama.

BALLPARK FIGURE There is no authentic data on thenumber of phones without IMEInumbers, as many phones are

imported through thegrey market. Department ofTelecommunicationsofficials estimate

that 25 million phonesin the country don’t haveIMEI numbers.

Mumbai’s Brabourne Stadium willhost a Test match after 36 years,when India play Sri Lanka in thethird Test starting Wednesday.The first Test at Ahmedabadended in a draw and the Lankanssuffered an innings defeat in thesecond Test at Kanpur. If Indiawin they will displace South Africaas the world’s top Test team.

The seventh ministerial confer-ence of the World TradeOrganisation (WTO) will start onMonday in Geneva. Ministers willreview the WTO’s functioning atthe three-day conference titled“The WTO, the MultilateralTrading System and the CurrentGlobal Economic Environment”.India is pushing formajor reforms at theWTO.

Ministersmeet at WTO

The government will release the gross domesticproduct (GDP) data for the second quarter (Julyto September) on Monday, amid signs that theworst might be over for the Indian economy.The GDP for the April to June quarter grew 6.1per cent, up from 5.8 per cent in each of the pre-vious two quarters. But the adverse effect of defi-cient rainfall on agriculture has dampened themood. Recent data released has confirmed signsof rising domestic demand in the country.

CanTeam Indiabecome No. 1?

Mandir, masjidback in news

■ Kar sevakson December6, 1992.

W T F SM T S

Singh backin Delhi

On Monday, the Gujarat High Court willresume hearings into the Ishrat Jahanencounter case. A three-member team ofpolice officers, set up by the court toinvestigate the encounter, will submitits report that day. Jahan, a teenagerfrom Maharashtra, and three otherswere shot in 2004 on the outskirts ofAhmedabad by the state police.

30.11.09

AMERICAN DESI■ The US and India advancedstrategic cooperation in fightingglobal terrorism.

■ Prime Minister Manmohan Singhmentioned the recent “assertive-ness” shown by the Chinese, dur-

ing the delegation-level talks.

■ President Obama praised theIndian role in reconstructionefforts in Afghanistan.

WHAT IS WTO? ■ The WTO is a globalbody that deals withregulation of multilateraltrade between nations.

■ Its main functions include administer-ing WTO trade agreements, providing aforum for trade negotiations, handlingtrade disputes, monitoring nationaltrade policies, and providing technicalassistance and training to developingcountries.

CASE FILEThe Ahmedabad metropolitanmagistrate ruled in Septemberthat the killings were a “fakeencounter”.

He also named the then DIGD.G. Vanzara and other police-

men in the “murder” of the four.

Rana hearing beginsA Chicago court is expected to begin hearingon Wednesday a bail application of TahawwurRana (48), a Pakistani-Canadian arrested onOctober 18 by the US Federal Bureau ofInvestigation on charges of plotting terrorattacks in India and Denmark. Rana hadreportedly visited Mumbai and other Indiancities last November and was in Pakistan fivedays before the 26/11 terror attack.

It’s a role reversal of sorts foractor Abhishek Bachchan whoplays father to his real-life father,superstar Amitabh Bachchan, inPaa, a movie directed by R.Balakrishnan that releases onFriday.

The elder Bachchan plays therole of a 13-year-old boy with a raregenetic disorder, progeria, whichcauses accelerated ageing. Other than the father-son duo, thefilm — produced by the AmitabhBachchan Corporation and SunilManchanda — stars Paresh Rawaland Vidya Balan (who plays

Amitabh’s mother).

FILMCREATES BUZZ

■ Oscar-winning artiste StephenDupuis, who did Robin Williams’ makeup in Mrs Doubtfire, was roped in to

give a unique look to AmitabhBachchan.

■ Instead of the usual credit titles,actor Jaya Bachchan will introduce the

cast and crew.

■ Amitabh Bachchan wrote on social network-ing site Facebook: “The face that you see is the

result of deep research. Kids affected bythis problem lose all their hair, become

bald and their veins begin toshow...”

Playing hisfather’s father

4.12.09

Sunday will mark the 17thanniversary of Babri Masjid dem-olition, which assumes signifi-cance because of the leak andrelease of the LiberhanCommission report in November.Samajwadi Party’s Abu Azmihas announced a campaign tobring Uttar PradeshMuslims back to the partyfold, on December 6.

No IMEI? No callsGDP growth

Gujarat encounter

GDPgrowthrate

Jul-Sept2008

7.7%

Oct-Dec2008

5.8%

Jan-Mar2009

5.8%

Apr-Jun2009

6.1%

Second phaseof polls

Fourteenconstituenciesgo to polls inthe secondphase.

JHARKHAND

PARTY SEATS (TOTAL 14)*

BJP 4

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 3

Congress 1

Janata Dal (United) 2

All Jharkhand Students Union 2

RJD 1

UGDP 1

■ BrabourneStadium

■ Guess who? AmitabhBachchan plays Auro, a13-year-old kid, in Paa.

Polling will be held onWednesday in the second phaseof the five-phase assembly elec-tion in Jharkhand, in which 14seats go to the polls. Results willbe declared on December 23.

* Existing tally

Hormone-fed vegetables being sold in Punjab

HT Correspondent■ chdnewsdesk@hindustantimes.com

AMRITSAR: The local Fruit andVegetable Merchants Union hasdecided to meet Chief MinisterParkash Singh Badal regardingthe demolition of 75 shops in theold vegetable market here onFriday.

On Sunday, the union metHealth Minister Laxmi KantaChawla regarding the issue.

Union general secretary HarishTaneja, speaking at a press con-ference, claimed a delegation ledby president Balraj Singh Sekhonhad met Chawla, who checkedtheir documents of appeal filedbefore the deputy commission-er and termed the demolition asillegal.

Taneja said the traders weresettled on the land in 1952. “Afterseveral representations, the land,which was Anjuman Islamia Park,was given to us on a lease of 12years at a rent of Rs 6 per month,”he said, adding that after sev-eral years the rent was raised to

Rs 45 per month.However, after 2004, the gov-

ernment stopped accepting therent. “As the government refusedto accept cash, we sent cheques,which were returned,” Tanejasaid. Also, a claim of the uniondemanding ownership of the landwas pending with the govern-ment since 1976.

The union has also senttelegrams to the chief justicesof the Supreme Court and thePunjab and Haryana High Court,Chief Minister Parkash SinghBadal, Local GovernmentMinister Manoranjan Kalia, cityMP Navjot Singh Sidhu, MLAAnil Joshi, Deputy CommissionerK.S. Pannu, MunicipalCommissioner D.P.S. Kharbandaand Mayor Shwait Malik.

As many as 75 shops weredemolished in the old vegetablemarket on the SDM’s orders onFriday.

The union had then allegedthe action took place despite anappeal pending before the deputycommissioner.

BOLLYWOODTRIBUTE TO PASHCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Hindi translations of Pash’spoems will be used in the film,which is in the stage of researchas of now. Anurag says he wantsto give the research the time itdeserves. “I will be travelling inPunjab and meeting his con-temporaries,” he adds.

The film, being produced byUTV, would be shot in Punjab.Though Anurag says the casthasn’t yet been fnalised, IrrfanKhan is said to be playing Pashand researching upon the char-acter.

Anurag would also be trav-elling to the US to meet Pash’sfather. When contacted, Pash’sfather Major Sohan SinghSandhu, who is based inCalifornia, said he did not haveany inkling of the movie.Nonetheless, he added, “I amdelighted at the idea. It will bea true tribute to Pash. I expectthe story will recount the factsof his life and not deviate fromhis ideology.”

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Traders to meet CM, claim Chawla support

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