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CHIEF EDITOR Dr Abhilaksh Likhi

MANAGING EDITOR Samwartak Singh

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The Haryana Government seems to be matching steps with the monsoon which has picked up pace, and has been bountiful thus far. Committed to the

overall development of the state and wellbeing of the people, the state government, led by Mr Manohar Lal, is scripting new schemes. The itch to do more for the people, combined with out-of-the-box thinking, has made the new dispensation come up with an innovative and voluntary-yet-participative scheme to ensure 24-hour power supply to rural domestic consumers and offer a new and beneficial healthcare deal to its employees.

The “Mhara Gaon-Jagmag Gaon” scheme, evolved by the state government, led by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, seeks to provide 24-hour uninterrupted power supply to the rural households in a phased manner with active participation of the ruralites. Besides lighting up villages 24x7, it aims at beefing up the distribution network for the convenience of the people, and motivating them to pay their bills on time. In Limelight, we unfold the scheme and the healthcare package.

Out to tap the potential the growing aviation industry holds for giving the economy of the state and job creation a decisive push, the Haryana Government has decided to set up an aviation hub in Hisar to cater to the requirements of the maintenance repair and overhaul facility, fixed base operations and aero-space park. In our Cover Report, we go deep into the hub plan to bring out its import and impact on the state.

Haryana has set a date with grassroots level democracy. All seems set for two-phased elections to the Panchayati Raj Institutes (PRIs) and urban local bodies. Read our report to know more about the elections. Monsoon is here; turn to the Photo Feature to feel the rain. Move forward and get a glance of the Mango Méla which was held in Pinjore Gardens in our Feature.

In the Sports segment, read about the sports girls of Haryana who defied gender stereotypes by shining in sports and proved that sports is the best way to empower women. Enjoy the tales of friendship on canvas in the Art and Culture section. A true friend is a rare treasure. So if you have one, consider yourself lucky and value him. Get wise by gathering the pearls of wisdom on true friendship given by Socrates on the Potpourri page. g

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IN LIMELIGHTMaking villages light up 24X7 p 4 The innovative “Mhara Gaon-Jagmag Gaon” scheme, scripted by the state government, led by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, aims at providing 24-hour power supply to the rural households with their participation

Babupur goes Bibipur way p 7

Haryana gifts staff a new healthcare deal p 8

COVER STORYHaryana to get and give wings p 12 The Haryana Government has decided to set up an ultra-modern aviation hub in strategically located Hisar to cater to the requirements of the Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Facility, Fixed Base Operations and Aerospace Park

Hisar, the chosen one p 16 Owing to its location, climate, great connectivity and availability of ample land and social infrastructure, Hisar has been chosen for housing the aviation hub coming up soon in Haryana

MRO facility too will come up p 18

Civil aviation industry all set to fly high p 21

INTERVIEWUHS sets sights high p 22

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REPORT

Haryana gears up for PRI, ULB polls p 26

PHOTO FEATURE

Some feel the rain, others just get wet p 28

CABINET DECISIONS

Score 80% in test to become a teacher p 36

CABINET EXPANSION

CM inducts three more in Cabinet p 38

NEWS IN CAPSULE

The month that was p 39

FEATURE

Romancing Bollywood with paints p 40Mango melange mingles with yoga p 42 Capturing moments through lens p 46

SPORTS

Grooms have to wait for these brides till 2016 p 48 Women grapplers prove their prowess p 50

ART AND CULTURE

Retrieving lost cultural heritage p 51 Telling tales of friendship with brush p 52

POTPOURRI

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HARYANA REVIEW AUGUST 20154

Parveen K Modi

Out-of-the-box thinking has become the style and innovation

the watchword in the new dispensa-tion in Haryana.

The tiny state has become the first in the country to launch an innovative voluntary-yet-participa-

tive scheme to ensure 24-hour power supply to rural domestic consumers.

The innovative “Mhara Gaon- Jag-mag Gaon” scheme, scripted by the state government, led by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, aims at providing 24-hour uninterrupted power supply to the rural households in a phased manner with active par-

ticipation of the ruralites.Giving broad outlines of the

scheme, the Chief Minister told Har-yana Review that besides ensuring uninterrupted power supply, it also aimed at further beefing up the dis-tribution network system for the con-venience of the people. He formally launched the scheme from Dayalpur village of Kurukshetra district.

Presently, rural consumers are getting electricity for only 12 hours every day. In the first phase of the scheme, 83 feeders have been iden-tified covering 310 such villages as have minimum line losses and have made payment of their electricity bills. Power supply was ensured in these villages for 15 hours a day from

Making villages light up 24X7The innovative “Mhara Gaon-Jagmag Gaon” scheme, scripted by the state government, led by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, aims at providing 24-hour power supply to the rural households

The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, launching the innovative voluntary scheme “Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon” in the village of Dayalpur, Kurukshetra district. The Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Mr Krishan Kumar Bedi, is also seen in the picture

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the day of the launch of the scheme.The consumers in these 310

villages fed by 83 feeders would now be urged to install their meters outside their houses and get their old electricity wires replaced with insulated wires. If this happens, power supply in these villages would be increased by three more hours, and these would be supplied power for 18 hours a day. In the next step, the power supply would be further increased to 21 hours on those feeders where the payment of bills crossed 90 per cent mark.

Finally, in the areas of feeders where the outstanding amount of electricity bills has been paid in five equated installments, both penalty

and interest would be waived off, and power supply would be provided for 24 hours. The scheme would also be implemented in such other vil-lages as approach the department, he added.

Asked to comment on the quan-tum of additional burden on account of implementation of the scheme, the Chief Minister said that it would cost Rs 5 crore. “But we do not take it as a burden since people will en-thusiastically pay their outstanding bills which would help in eliminat-ing pendency as well as in paring line losses. Line losses would be less than 20 per cent and bill realisation would be over 90 per cent,” Mr Manohar Lal added.

The Chief Minister lighting a lamp at the function in Dayalpur village of Kurukshetra district to launch “Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon” scheme. Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Krishan Kumar Bedi and MLA Thanesar Subhash Sudha are also seen in the picture


The Chief Minister said that ‘Bijli Panchayats’ would be organised in all villages falling under these feed-ers. Officers of the electricity depart-ment, present at these panchayats, would resolve the complaints of consumers on the spot.

Complaints like replacement of meters, electricity wires, installa-tion of new poles, and enhancement of load would be resolved within a week. Besides, a nodal officer of the level of junior engineer would also be appointed on every feeder who would coordinate various activities at the village level to ensure effec-tive implementation of the scheme, he added.

ENSURING TRANSPARENCYUnder the scheme, the electricity bills would depict such information as line losses on a particular feeder and the pending amount of the elec-tricity bill to ensure transparency. In case any consumer cites any differ-ence in the data, the department as well as officials concerned would be held accountable for the same.

Mr Manohar Lal said that the

state would bear an additional expenditure of Rs 15 to 20 lakh per village for implementing the scheme. The state government will continue to supply power to agriculture tube-wells for eight hours.

Adequate electricity is available in the state to meet the present re-quirement. But with implementation of the scheme, the requirement of electricity would go up further and the government has already made elaborate arrangements for meeting the future power demands. Besides strengthening the power infrastruc-ture, 800 MW Super Critical Thermal Plant is being set up at Panipat to re-place the existing obsolete units each of 110 MW. Similarly, 800 MW Super Critical Thermal Power Plant would also be established at Yamunanagar.

Special emphasis is being laid on generating renewable energy by installing solar power plants on roof-tops. The government has set a target to generate 400 MWs of re-newable energy by 2020. In addition, under the Central Government Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yoja-na, a programme costing Rs 2,000

crore has been launched for further strengthening distribution system in the state.

While launching the scheme at Dayalpur village of Kurukshetra, Mr Manohar Lal said that now electric-ity meters would not be carried to laboratories for checking, and, if any fault is found in the meter, it would be repaired free of cost.

PEOPLE EXTEND SUPPORTAfter the launch, the Chief Minister released the brochure “Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon” prepared by the Dak-shin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam. Those present raised their hands in support and promised the Chief Minister that they would pay their electricity bills on time.

Taking a dig at the Opposition, the Chief Minister said that dur-ing the elections, most parties had promised 24-hour power supply in their manifestos. Some parties misled the innocent people into not paying their electricity bills. “Since I became the Chief Minister, steps are being taken to provide 24-hour power supply,” he added.

Due to the non-payment of electricity bills and line losses, power utilities are suffering a loss of Rs 5,500 crore. If 24-hour power is supplied and people do not pay bills, the losses would increase to Rs 8,000-9,000 crore. Now, people would have to adopt the habit of paying the electricity bills because funds are re-quired for carrying out development works. If people do not pay their bills, how funds would be generated, the Chief Minister asked.

Gram Sabhas would be organised to solve power related problems. Directions have been issued to re-lease electricity connections within a week. With the installation of insulated wires and meters outside houses, power supply would be increased from 15 to 18 hours. In the next phase, the supply would be fur-ther increased to 21 hours on those feeders where the payment of bills would cross 90 per cent-mark. Be-sides, power supply would be made available for 24 hours if the amount of pending billing cycle remains less than 10 per cent, he added. g

Chief Minister Manohar Lal being briefed on the “Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon” scheme


Parveen K Modi

Babupur goes the Bibipur way. While Bibipur village in Jind

District attracted the attention and appreciative mention by the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, the oth-er day for its daughter-father selfie campaign aimed at promoting the cause of “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao”, the tiny and dusty hamlet of Babu-pur in Gurgaon District bordering Rajasthan, has fallen under the ban-ner of PM’s “Digital India” campaign

The village has been selected for the pilot project of having advanced, hi-tech and digitised e-model gram panchayats under the banner of “Digital India”, courtesy the pull the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, enjoys with the Central Govern-ment. This is explained by the fact that Haryana ranks among the ten states in the country where one gram panchayat each has been picked up for the pilot project.

OTHER NINE STATESThe other nine states where a gram panchayat each will be e-modelled under the pilot project are: Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajast-han, Maharashtra, Tripura and West Bengal.

Haryana Review learns that fully computerised office of e-Model Gram Panchayat Babupur has already been set up in the village. The data of the panchayat is being uploaded on the website through internet for which training has been imparted to the gram sachivs, sarpanches and public representatives.

Complete information about the village has been made avail-able on the website of gram panchayat http://www.gpbabu-pur-gurgaon.harpanchayats.gov.in. It includes description of the develop-

ment works undertaken, expenditure made on them, population of the village, number of voters, sex ratio, development plan and details of income and expenditure. It will make the operation totally transparent.

As many as 11 different softwares have been developed to upload the data on this website. Apart from computerizing the income- ex-penditure details, the status report of various works being carried out is also available on the website.

On the pattern of Babupur, other gram panchayats of the

district too would be linked with this concept to bring more transparen-cy in the development works. The state government has also provided laptops to gram sachivs so that they may not face any problem in under-standing the concept. g

Babupur goes Bibipur wayGram panchayat to go hi-tech under “Digital India” banner

GURGAON DISTRICT

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Parveen K Modi

The Haryana Government em-ployees, their dependents and

pensioners, have been dished out a new deal in the shape of package medicare by the state government, led by Mr Manohar Lal. While bringing more procedures and implants under the ambit, the package deal brings ex-pensive medicare within their reach.

The benefit comes wrapped in the medical policy for the treatment of government employees, their de-

pendents and pensioners in private hospitals empanelled by the state gov-ernment. The new policy which seeks to implement package medicare for the first time, will be applicable for as many as 152 procedures and implants. It aims at providing a major relief to the state government employees, their dependents and pensioners.

Unfolding the package, a Health Department official told Haryana Review that besides facilitating them package rates, which would be fully reimbursed, the new policy entitles

the employees to reimbursement of room rent, varying from Rs 1,000 to Rs 3,900 per day depending on one’s entitlement and the type of hospital one prefers to go to, for treatment.

Such employees as do not want to avail themselves of package rates would be entitled to fixed cost of such implants as have not been notified by the state government. With a view to avoiding any confusion regarding reimbursement, the empanelled hos-pitals have been classified into three categories.

Haryana gifts staff a new healthcare dealScoring another first, the Haryana Government, led by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, has handed its employees, dependents and pensioners a new package healthcare deal


These are the hospitals having National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) certification; the Joint Com-mission International (JCI) certifi-cation; and non-NABH and non-JCI hospitals. The package rates would be different for different categories of hospitals.

In order to take care of serious pa-tients given non-packaged treatment, the state government has fixed the rates for ICU/ICU and the ventila-tor. Any patient admitted to the ICU would be paid an amount varying from Rs 3,000 to 8,000, depending upon one’s entitlement and the hospital one goes to.

On fixing ICU and ICU+Ventilator charges for non- package procedures, package rates have been worked out for common procedures in consulta-tion with various empanelled private hospitals. This has been done for the convenience of employees as well as private health institutions. The measure also seeks to rationalise the charges in various institutions. Under these new guidelines, 152, in-cluding already notified 21 packages/implants and major procedures, have been fixed.

THE GUIDELINESThe Haryana Government has cat-egorised approved private hospitals for the purpose of implementing package rates. There are three types of rates applicable to different types of hospitals which are categorised on the basis of the accreditation of hospitals, namely Non-NABH/Non-JCI, NABH and JCI.

All state government-empanelled private hospitals will charge from the employees as per the fixed pack-age/implant rates and these will be fully reimbursable to the employees/pensioners and their dependents, except for a few JCI package rates

wherein the reimbursement of some of the amount will be borne by the beneficiary.

According to the guidelines issued for implementation of the package rates, the empanelled hospitals will provide treatment on 152 procedures at the prescribed package rates and implants and charge accordingly from the employees/pensioners and their dependents. These package rates are applicable only for identi-fied procedures.

PACKAGE RATE DEFINEDThe package rate shall mean and include lump sum cost of in-pa-tient treatment/day care/diagnosis procedure; for which a patient goes to hospital. It includes all charges pertaining to a particular treatment/procedure, including admission charges, visit fee/consultation fee, patient's diet, monitoring charges, pre-operative investigation charges and investigation charges.

Besides, it also factors in oper-ation charges, anesthesia charges, operation theatre charges, procedural charges, surgeon's fee, cost of surgi-cal disposals and all sundries used during hospitalisation, consumables, gas charges, surgical charges, cost of medicine used during hospitalisa-tion/phsiotherapy charges, nursing care charges for its services etc.

The cost of coronary stents shall be allowed for up to a maximum of three stents at a time. In addition to the chargeable amount mentioned against the package rate, the cost of room rent/ICU/CCU, including ventilator charges, shall be charged

The package rate will include lump sum cost of in-patient treatment/day care/diagnostic procedures for which a patient goes to hospital. It includes all charges pertaining to a particular treatment and procedure, including admission charges, consultation fee, patient’s diet, monitoring charges, pre-operative investigation charges, investigation charges, operation charges, operation theatre charges, cost of surgical disposals, surgeon’s fee, and sundry expenses during hospitalisation such as consumables, surgical charges, cost of medicines used during hospitalisation and nursing care charges.

Package rate defined

PER DAY RATES

S.No. Name of surgeryLump sum package rate

(both for general and private ward)Package rates for NABH Hospital

Package rate for JCI accredited hospital

1. ICURs 3,000 per day, excluding medicines

only for non-package treatment i.e medical/surgical emergencies

Rs 3,450 Rs 3,900

2. ICU + VentilatorRs 8,000 per day, excluding medicines

only for non-package treatment i.e medical/surgical emergencies

Rs 8,000 per day, excluding medicines

for non-package treatment i.e medical/surgical emergencies

Rs 8,000 per day excluding medicines

for non-package treatment i.e medical/surgical emergencies

Fixed cost of ICU/ICU+ ventilator for non-package treatment

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separately. No extra cost of con-sumables/drugs etc will be allowed during the stay in lCU/CCU or in the room because these are part of the package rates.

The room rent/ICU/ICCU charg-es are according to the number of days a patient stays in the hospital according to the prescribed package. The cost of implant shall be charged by the approved hospital separately according to the rates fixed by the government from time to time or whichever is less.

Day Care Room rent charges are admissible up to Rs 500. During the

treatment in CCU/ICU, no separate room rent will be admissible. Semi private ward will be treated as gener-al ward for the purpose of room rent.

In case of complication resulting in overstay in the hospital which means more than the required num-ber of days for a particular surgery, additional expenditure incurred on room rent shall be reimbursed as mentioned above, drugs and con-sumables are fully reimbursible, the hospital charges of investigation, procedures etc performed during the over stay shall be reimbursed as per the rates under the instructions appli-

Government employees wanting to see their entitlement for reimbursement in different hospitals can get detailed information from the Haryana Health Department’s website at http://haryanahealth.nic

Know your entitlement

S.No. Item The ceiling

A. REIMBURSMENT OF CARDIOLOGICAL IMPLANTATION DEVICES/CORONARY STENTS

1. Rotablator Rs 50,000 or actual cost, whichever is less

2.Pacemaker (Single Chamber)

• Without rate response• With rate response

Rs 37,000 or the actual cost, whichever is lessRs 65,000 or the actual cost, whichever is less

3. Pacemaker (Dual Chamber) Rs 1,15,000 or the actual cost, whichever is less

4. Permanent Pacemaker Biventricular (CRT) Rs 3,00,000 or the actual cost, whichever is less

5. AICD Implant Single Chamber Rs 3,00,000 or the actual cost, whichever is less

6. AICD Implant Dual Chamber Rs 4,50,000 or the actual cost, whichever is less

7. Combo device (CRTD) Rs 5,50,000 or the actual cost, whichever is less

8 . Coronary stents

a. Bio absorbable stents Rs 1,30,000

b. Drug Eluting Coronary Stents namely - Cipher stent, Taxus stent, Endeavor, Sience V.EECSS, Yukon choice, bare metal stents etc.

• All DGCI and FDA approved drug eluting stents = Rs 65,000• All DGCI and CE approve drug eluting stents = Rs 50,000• All DGCI approved drug eluting stents = Rs 40,000

c. Bare metal stents1. Stainless steel stents = Rs 12,0002. Cobalt stents• All DGCI and FDA approved =Rs 20,000• All DGCI and CE approved = Rs 18,000• All DGI approved = Rs 15,0003. Coated/Other stents = Rs 25,000

d. Bare Metal Vascular (Non Coronary Stents)1. Stainless steel stents= Rs 20,0002. Cobalt stents = Rs 22,0003. Nitinol/ other stents = Rs 25,000

B. REIMBURSMENT OF COST OF INTRA OCULAR LENS(IOL)/ VALVE FOR GLAUCOMA9. Hydrophobic Foldale IOL Rs 5,000

10. Silicon Foldable IOL Rs 3,60011. Hydrophilic Acrylic Lens Rs 5,80012. PMMA IOL Rs 490

Amended rate list of implants


13. Valve for Glaucoma Surgery Rs 10,000C. REIMBURSMENT OF COST OF TOTAL KNEE AND TOTAL HIP TRANSPLANT

14. Total knee implantKnee implant cemented (unilateral) = Rs 60,000 + the cost of bone cement

Rs 5,000

15. Total hip implant

1. Hip implant cemented (unilateral) =Rs 35,000 + the cost of bone cement Rs 5,000

2. Hybrid hip implant one component cemented and other uncemented (unilateral) = Rs 45,000 + cost of bone cement i.e Rs 5,000

3. Hip implant uncemented (Unilateral) = Rs 60,0004. Surface replacement hip implant (unilateral) = Rs 1,20,0005. Bipolar modular cemented implant= Rs 30,000 + the cost of bone

cement Rs 5,0006. Bipolar modular uncemented implant = Rs 45,000

D. REIMBURSMENT OF COST OF COCHLEAR IMPLANTS

16. Cochlear implant

Rs 5,35,000 (for implant with 12 channels /24 electrodes with behind the ear speech processor). Reimbursement shall be allowed @ 100 per cent in case of children between 1 and 5 years, @ 80 per cent in case of children between 5 and 10 years and 50 per cent in case of children between 10 and 16 years. 50 percent of the cost wearable components e.g speech processor, microphones etc. (excluding cords, batteries) for the purpose of upgradation and/or replacement every 3 years, on the advice of two ENT surgeons of government/approved private hospitals

E. REIMBURSEMENT OF COST OF CPAP/BIPAP MACHINES

17. CPAP machineRs 50,000 on the advice of the concerned specialist of

government/approved private hospitals

18. BIPAP machineRs 1,00,000 on the advice of the concerned specialist of government/

approved private hospitals

F. REIMBURSEMENT OF COST OF NEURO-IMPLANT

Item Ceiling rate Life of battery Cost of battery

19. DBS implant Rs 3,60,000 3-5 years Rs 2,50,000

20. Intra-thecal pumps Rs 2,62,000 7 years Rs 2,25,000

21.Spinal cord stimulators

Rs 2,62,000 3-5 years Rs 2,00,000

a. On prescribing by the neurologist of the government/approved hospitalsb. Replacement of battery before 4 years may be permitted in exceptional cases on the basis of justification by the treating specialist and shall be considered on the case-to case basis by the Department of Health and Family welfare

G. Other items

22. Stapler Rs 12,000

S.No. Item The ceiling

cable to the hospital from where the patient has taken the treatment.

lt will be the responsibility of the beneficiary to produce identity card of the department to the concerned hospital in order to establish the fact that he/she is employee/pensioner of the Haryana Government.

It will be the responsibility of the concerned hospital to ask for ID card from the employee/pensioner

and to explain to them the proce-dure covered under the package or non-package. In case the hospital charges over and above the package rate, where there is no complication and patient is discharged within the stipulated number of days men-tioned against each package rate, the balance amount over and above the package rate shall be refunded to the beneficiary and an amended bill shall

be issued immediately. In case this is not done within a month, the hospital will be liable for de-empanelment.

It will be the responsibility of the hospital to provide accredita-tion certificate and further renewal certificate well before the expiry date otherwise it will be considered as non accredited for the purpose of charg-ing lump-sum rate from patient for the package rate. g


Haryana to get and give wings

The Haryana Government has decided to set up an ultra-modern aviation hub in strategically located Hisar to cater to the requirements of the maintenance repair and overhaul facility, fixed base operations and aerospace park

Ultra-modern aviation hub to come up in Hisar

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Hisar, the City of Steel and an emerging nucleus of education,

is now poised to get and give wings. It will be home to an ultra-modern global standard integrated avia-tion hub.

Out to tap the potential growing aviation industry holds for giving the economy of the state and job cre-ation a decisive push, the Haryana Government has decided to set up a hub in Hisar to cater to the require-ments of the Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility, Fixed Base Operations (FBO) and Aero-space Park.

The selection of the site for locat-ing the hub seems quite thoughtful. Well connected through rail and road, Hisar is just 20 minutes of flying distance from the Indira Gan-dhi International Airport in Delhi. The city is located in the catchment area covering parts of Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana. Also, Hisar has a continental climate character-ised predominantly by dry periods with scanty precipitation, condu-cive for aviation manufacturing, maintenance, repair and overhaul operations.

Out to give shape to this ambi-tious project, the Department of Civ-il Aviation plans to float expression of interest to seek suggestions from various stakeholders in the avi-ation sector. Their inputs will be factored in while preparing the final project report. The hub will become fully operational by 2022.

CATALYTIC EFFECT ON DEVELOPMENTThe decision draws sustenance and strength from the fact that the linkage between the civil aviation sector and economic activity has a catalytic effect on general develop-ment and job creation. According to the International Civil Aviation Or-ganisation (ICAO), every $100 spent on air transport produces benefits worth $325 for the economy, and 100 additional jobs in air transport re-sult in 610 new jobs in the economy.

Several factors, including micro and macro, are driving growth in manufacturing in India's aerospace

industry. These are strong economic growth that has given the demand for domestic aircraft a leg-up, liber-alisation of civil aviation policies, offset requirements, strong domestic manufacturing base, cost advantag-es, well-educated talent pool, the ability to leverage IT competitive-ness and liberal special economic zones law that provides attractive fiscal benefits for both developers and manufacturers.

According to the CII, the total spending on commercial aircraft in the next five years is expected to be in the range of $ 25 billion (assuming uniform demand) and $ loo billion on defence expenditure. Out of the defence expenditure, approximately 15 to 20 per cent ($ 15-20 billion) is expected to be spent on military aircraft. Assuming an offset of 30 per cent for the civil sec-tor as well, the total offset opportu-nity for the aerospace sector may be work out to $ 10-15 billion.

With the Indian manufacturing capabilities maturing over the years, these are expected to capture a large slice of the global cake. The chal-lenges include access to technology, funding, poor availability and high cost of raw material and certifica-tion processes.

That India is poised to become a large commercial and defence aircraft market makes the deci-sion look futuristic. With rising passenger traffic and increasing military and defense expenditure, the demand for aircraft is bound to increase. The maturing Indian man-ufacturing capabilities would surely be tapped.

COMMITTEE CONSTITUTEDWith a view to tapping the vast opportunities this sector offers, a committee of officers was constitut-ed to undertake studies and prepare a concept note for the mega project to be built around the Hisar airfield. After weighing various options, including upgrading the civilian airport in Hisar to the level of do-mestic airport, setting up of a cargo airport, support facilities like MRO etc. and aerospace/defence manufac-turing, the committee zeroed in on the most suitable project of devel-oping an aviation hub which would include an MRO/FBO facility with an Aerospace Park for aerospace/defence manufacturing.

Haryana Review learns that the MRO Facility would include airframe, engine and components, whereas FBO would cover parking and transit facilities; fuelling and flight planning; lounge and recrea-tional facilities for pilots and crew; accommodation; business centre and conference facilities; charter flight operations and air taxi services. The Aerospace Park will manufac-ture components for aerospace and defence sectors.

The project would be developed in a modular manner as each segment requires specific skills, knowledge and regulatory approvals. Being in the vicinity of two major air-ports, and having good road and rail connectivity—Hisar lies on two National Highways namely NH-10

n Runway refurbishment and expansion of runway to 9,000 feet in order to service a greater range of aircraft.

n ATC, navigational aids and night landing facilities

n Airfield security and support services like fire safety etc.

n Perimeter fencingn Physical infrastructure,

including hangars, aprons, taxiways, workshop complex, lounge and reception areas, administrative blocks, etc.

n Equipment: Tool kits, machinery, furniture and fixtures, test bed facilities, safety equipment, vehicles, fuel storage facilities, etc.

What all needs to be done


(Delhi-Rohtak-Hisar-Sirsa) and NH-65 (Ambala-Kaithal-Hisar-Jodhpur) and state highways No. 10, 13 and 20 pass through it--the city has great potential for the project.

Besides, having four broad gauge railway lines at the station, Hisar is well connected with Delhi, Mumbai, Punjab, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir. Given the availability of land, the state government looks at it as a counter-magnet to Delhi NCR.

USING EXISTING INFRASTRUCTUREThe existing infrastructure in Hisar would be suitably used for creating the large facility. Apart from the 194 acres for the Hisar airport with the Department of Civil Aviation, the area surrounding the airport is also available with the Departments of Animal Husbandry, Prisons and Po-lice and the Haryana Land Reclama-tion and Development Corporation (HLRDC). An area of about 2,000 acres can be made available for the project immediately.

The possibility of setting up a do-mestic airport or cargo airport may be evaluated in the long run, say by 2022, when the existing facilities be-

come fully saturated. Therefore, the other option of creating an Integrat-ed aviation hub along the existing airstrip at Hisar by upgrading the infrastructure and setting up of an MRO facility and an industrial park for aerospace / defence components manufacturing were also studied.

The MRO facility appeared to be a viable project because Indi-an aviation industry is experiencing

exponential growth and MRO work is presently outsourced outside the country. Less than five per cent of MRO work is carried out in India and business worth US$ 475 million goes abroad.

MRO manpower costs in India are lower than in the leading industrial-ised nations, as well as the regional MRO hubs of Dubai and Singapore, leading to a potential for attract-

Project Component Land (acres) Comments

Airframe MRO/FBO l00 -125

An Airframe MRO/FBO requires a dedicated airstrip sufficient enough for the landing / take off requirements of the aircraft / turbo-props / helicopters (all types), to be serviced in hangars connected to the runway by link taxi-tracks

at specified minimum mandatory structure-height-related distances.

Engine MRO 4-5

A stand-alone Engine MRO facility does not require adjoining airstrip as the engines can be transported to the facility by road. However, in order to

ensure reduced transportation time (and hence down-time of the aircraft) an airport in the vicinity is desirable, with good quality inter-connecting road.

Component MRO 2-3

A stand-alone component MRO facility similar to engine MRO need not require adjoining airstrip as the components can be transported to the facility

by toad. Again, vicinity to an airport is desirable for reduced transportation time, etc.

Integrated / One Stop Shop for Commercial Jets / Turbo-

props/Air Taxi Servicel00 - 150

A one stop shop for commercial jets.Turbo-props will require a dedicated runway, hangar facilities complete with workshops and state of the art

infrastructure coupled with associated facilities.

Aerospace Park 1,000 - 1,500A self-sustained integrated industrial park with secondary and tertiary level

infrastructure.

Area requirement for various components

n Component 1 Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO) Facility: Airframe, engine and components

n Component 2 Fixed Base Operations (FB0): Parking and transit facilities; fuelling and flight planning; lounge and recreational

facilities for pilots and crew; accommodation; business centre and conference facilities; charter flight operations; air taxi services

n Component 3 Aerospace Park: For components manufacturing for aerospace and defence sectors

Three major components


ing foreign airlines in the region. Respondents indicated that MRO manpower costs in India range from USD 30 to USD 35 per hour, which is 60 per cent cheaper than in Western Europe or the US.

There is shortage of talent in de-veloped countries – their workforce is ageing and the supply of high quality engineering talent is on the decline. India has a robust supply of talent — large and able population of engineering graduates who are trained and have suitable technical competence and experience. How-ever, some Indian MRO companies believe that India is experiencing an increasing trend for aerospace engineers choosing to work abroad, some in tax-free zones.

Many of these engineers have been poached from India-based carriers. To address this, MRO companies are in the early stages of working with educational institu-tions to guide the graduates towards the aerospace sector and also pro-mote after graduation employment programmes.

AVENUES MRO WILL OPEN Currently, there are no MROs within a five-hour fly zone of India. Indian MRO companies can leverage India's inherent geographic advantage of being between Europe / Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

During the last decade, the civil aviation sector has grown at a phenomenal pace and India has emerged as the ninth largest civil aviation market in the world market size of $16 billion. According to KPMG-FICCI Report, the Indian Civil Aviation Industry has a vision of becoming the third largest avia-tion market by 2020 and the largest by 2030.

With the growth in the aviation industry, significant business oppor-tunity could come to India from the associated offsets. The rapid growth of industry has attracted major global aerospace companies to India. All segments in the aerospace indus-try, including civil aviation, military aviation and space, are showing significant levels of growth. This au-gurs for the proposed aviation hub. g


Preetinder Kaur Sodhi

An ultramodern integrated aviation hub that would provide

facilities, including designing, engi-neering, servicing and maintaining aircraft, is coming up in Haryana and Hisar is the chosen city for housing it. But the question which comes to everybody’s mind is why Hisar?

Due to its potential, Hisar has been taken up for development. There is a good location in vicinity of two major airports' influence areas. The city is well connected through rails and roads (national/state highways).

COUNTER MAGNET TO NCRThe aviation hub project would align with the strategy of the state govern-ment for geographical dispersal as Hisar is counter magnet to National Capital Region. The availability of ample land for the entire project is the greatest plus. Great talent would be attracted to the project because of the availability of social infra-structure, relating to residential, educational and medical facilities, in the city.

Hisar has a continental climate characterised by predominantly dry periods with scanty precipitation. This is conducive for aviation man-ufacturing as well as maintenance, repair and overhaul operations.

Haryana does not have a domestic airport of its own. The demand for domestic or international travel is being met through the Delhi Inter-national Airport or the Chandigarh Airport, and road/rail modes have also emerged as the preferred mode of travel. There is need to optimally utilise the existing facilities and build an appropriate and most suitable

project concept. At present, there are two aviation

training centres in the state -- at Hisar and Karnal. There are five civil airstrips; these are located in Hisar, Bhiwani, Karnal, Narnaul and Pinjore. In addition, two defence aerodromes are located at Sirsa and Ambala. There are three aviation centres of the Haryana Institute of Civil Aviation at Hisar, Karnal and Pinjore, respectively. Flying training is also provided at Hisar, Pinjore and Karnal. Thus, Hisar already has some aviation facilities which can be developed further for the benefit of the entire state.

Hisar is the administrative headquarters of Hisar district. It is

located 164 km to the west of New Delhi and has been identified as a counter-magnet city to be developed as an alternative centre of growth to Delhi.

It is India's largest galvanised iron manufacturing city and due to presence of a large steel industry, it is also known as "The City of Steel". According to the 2011 Census of India, the city has a population of 3,01,249. It also enjoys excellent social infrastructure.

The city lies on two national highways, namely NH-10 (Delhi-Ro-htak-Hisar-Sirsa) and NH-65 (Am-bala-Kaithal-Hisar-Jodhpur). The state highways of Haryana that pass through Hisar are SH 10, SH 13 and

Hisar, the chosen oneOwing to its location, climate, great connectivity and availability of ample land and social infrastructure, Hisar has been chosen for housing the aviation hub coming up soon in Haryana

A view of Hisar


SH 20. Besides, there are district roads, village link roads and canal inspection roads. It is a railway junc-tion station, and falls under Bikaner division of North Western Railway Zone. Currently, there are four broad gauge railway lines at the station. The city is well connected to Delhi, Mumbai, Punjab, Rajasthan and Jam-mu & Kashmir through rail links.

HEALTH INSTITUTESThe city also has many reputed pri-vate and charitable health institutes such as Sukhda Hospital, Sarvodaya Multi speciality & Cancer Hospital, N C Jindal Institute of Medical Scienc-es, O P Jindal Institute of Cancer and Research, Maharaja Agrasen Medical College, Sewak Sabha Hospital, CMC Hospital and Churamani Vishnudevi Maternity Hospital.

Hisar is also home to a number of universities like the Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricul-tural University, which was estab-lished in 1971 and is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology and Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences.

Apart from universities, there are some noted colleges such as, Chajju Ram Memorial Jat College, Dayanand College, Fateh Chand Col-lege for Women, Govt Post Graduate College and Maharaja Agrasen Med-ical College, Agroha offering quality higher education.

The city also has a good number of private and government schools. A few agricultural and veterinary research centres are also situated in the city such as National Research Centre on Equines, Central Sheep Breeding Farm, National Institute on Pig Breeding and Research, Northern Region Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institute and

Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes (CIRB).

The proposed aviation hub will be located at the outskirts of the Hisar city at 29° 10' 45" North, 75° 45' 19" East. It is about 6 km from Hisar Railway Station, 2 km from Blue Bird Lake, 4 km from the bus station along the National Highway 10, 5 km from the town centre and main market area, 167 km from the Delhi Airport, 180 km from the New Delhi Railway Station and 235 km from the Chandi-garh Airport.

The existing land area at the Hisar airfield is approximately 194 acres and the length of existing runway is 4,000 feet by 150 feet. The airfield currently has 2 hangars which are used for housing HICA aircraft and for stationing private aircraft.

Various development options have also been considered for Hisar such as domestic passenger air-port, cargo airport, MRO and FBO facilities and aerospace and defence manufacturing.

Cargo airport may not be viable in the short and medium term due to the presence of Indira Gandhi Interna-tional Airport and the Chandigarh Airport within a travelling distance of 3 to 4 hours from Hisar.

DEMAND FOR TRAFFICThere is relatively low-intrinsic demand for both passenger and cargo traffic within the catchment area of the airport to generate the critical mass for such a facility. There is general unviability of standalone cargo airport and lack of cargo traffic within the project catchment area.

However, the feasibility of a do-mestic airport and/or a cargo airport may be evaluated again in the long term as the project may become a viable option once the existing facili-ties at the Delhi Airport become fully saturated by the year 2022 (which is expected to be the case as per a study by CAPA) necessitating the require-ment for another airport.

Thus, offering so many advantages in terms of connectivity, social infra-structure relating to residential, edu-cational and medical facilities, Hisar has rightly been chosen for setting up of the aviation hub in the state. g

The existing land area at the Hisar airfield is approximately 194 acres and the length of existing runway is 4,000 feet by 150 feet. The airfield currently has 2 hangars which are used for housing HICA aircraft and for stationing private aircraft


Shweta Vashishta

The proposed aviation hub in Hisar would also have the facility

for airline Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO). There is demand for MRO facilities in India (for both domestic and foreign carriers) which provides an immediate opportunity for its development. Several large MRO facilities are currently in the

planning stage; hence, a significant first-mover advantage exists. Also, development of these facilities at ex-isting commercial airports has been hindered by lack of space.

Cashing in on its locational advantage, Hisar has grabbed this opportunity for development of MRO facilities. It is not a commercial air-port but is in close proximity to two international airports. This would

provide good facility for parking and MRO activity.

While the Indian aviation industry is experiencing exponential growth, MRO work is typically outsourced to other countries. Less than 5 per cent of MRO work is carried out in India, and business worth USD 475 million goes abroad. Keeping the above in view, there exists ample potential for development of an MRO facility as

MRO facility too will come upCashing in on its locational advantage, Hisar has grabbed the opportunity for development of MRO facilities at the aviation hub

Heavy airframe maintenance

A regularly scheduled work scope with detailed inspection, maintenance, preventive maintenance and alteration of the entire aircraft and its installed components that will place the aircraft out of service for a pre-determined period of time.

Engine overhaulOff-wing maintenance, preventive maintenance and alteration that restore the engine to designed operational condition; by regulation, the engine must be disassembled, inspected, parts are repaired or replaced as necessary, re-assembled and tested.

Component Maintenance, preventive maintenance and alteration of components that will be installed on an aircraft, airframe, engine or propeller.

Line maintenance

Maintenance checks that are carried out to ensure that the aircraft is fit for flight but that do not remove the aircraft from service. These checks are light in nature and can be performed with minimum tools and equipment on the tarmac including pre flight/ daily/ transit / turn around (between flights including refuelling) and weekly inspections etc.

Four distinct verticals of civil MRO market


the industry is largely under-served.As a support service to the

aviation industry, the opportunity to provide MRO activities will grow with the industry itself. India's MRO segment is estimated to grow at 10 per cent and reach USD 2.6 billion by 2020 because of a number of reasons.

MRO manpower costs in India are lower than in the leading industrial-ised nations, as well as the regional MRO hubs of Dubai and Singapore, leading to a potential for attract-ing foreign airlines in the region. Respondents indicated that MRO manpower costs in India range from USD 30 to USD 35 per hour, which is 60 per cent cheaper than in Western Europe or the US.

There is also a shortage of talent in developed countries-- these workforces are ageing and supply of high quality engineering talent is declining. India has a robust supply of talent — large and able population of engineering graduates who are trained and have suitable technical competence and experience. How-ever, some Indian MRO companies believe that India is experiencing an increasing trend of aerospace engi-neers choosing to work abroad, some in tax-free zones.

THE POACHING GAMEMany of these engineers have been poached from India-based carriers. To address this, MRO companies are in the early stages of working with educational institutions to guide graduates towards the Indian aerospace sector and also promot-ing after-graduation employment programmes.

Currently, there are no MROs within a five-hour fly zone of India. Indian MRO companies can leverage India's inherent geographic advan-tage of being between Europe / Mid-dle East and the Asia Pacific region.

Domestic carriers can benefit from having MRO facilities within India's borders. This cuts the cost of sending their aircraft to Dubai or Singapore. Establishing MRO facil-ities in India will enable operators to achieve faster turn-around times, savings in operating costs and reduc-tion in foreign exchange outflows.

In addition, the growth of several Low-Cost Carriers (LCCs) in India has increased competitive pressure, and the airlines would prefer to have aircraft serviced locally to reduce costs and on-ground time.

Establishment of world class MRO facilities with stable domestic oper-ations will also attract work orders from overseas. International carri-ers, who have been increasing their flight routes to India, can have their aircraft serviced in India, thereby leveraging cost arbitrage opportuni-ties. This will result in an increase of jobs, a rise in consumption and an overall lift to the economy.

While flight operators such as Air

India have in-house maintenance arms, most of the companies are moving towards leasing aircraft, especially LCCs. These LCCs have not focused on establishing in-house maintenance facilities, as their business model demands outsourc-ing of maintenance jobs to third party MROs with strict maintenance schedules from FAA/EASA-certified MRO facilities. This can be consid-ered as a great opportunity for ven-turing into aviation MRO, viewing the demand for maintenance as the fleets of these airlines gets older.

The sector is characterised by heavy regulatory approvals. The MRO business needs to have regula-

Commercial Aviation MROs

MRO name Types of MRO Status

Jet Airways, Bangalore

Maintenance and engineering

facility

Jet Airways has signed a land-leasing and framework agreement with BIAL

to set up MRO facilities at BIAL

Lufthansa — Technik with GMR Group,

Hyderabad

Signed agreement to set up MRO at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.

Boeing and Air IndiaBoeing plans to establish a USD 100 mn facility spreading across 100 acres of land at MIHAN SEZ in Nagpur.

Thales International, Nagpur

Thales International, has tentatively planned to build an avionics

maintenance centre in Gurgaon

TAAL, MumbaiMRO and

aviation park

Tied up with Air Works to lease seven acres and up to five hangars

to develop its private airfield as an MRO and aviation park.

Sabena Technics of TAT Group, France,

Hosur

Manufacturing of components and

maintenance

Sabena technics has signed agreement with TAAL to develop an MRO at TAAL's airfield in Hosur.

Airbus Nashik

Tie-up with HAL for setting up a US$ 100 million MRO facility. Also

signed MOUs with Maharashtra Airport Development Company.

SIA engineering with Wadia group

Signed an MOU for setting up MROs in India.

HAL & Pratt & Whitney Canada,

Bangalore

Engine maintenance

Engine overhaul and maintenance services. The MRO would have yearly

capacity of 150 aircraft.

Air works, HosurEngine and heavy

maintenance

Setting up commercial MRO with five hangar capacity, heavy and engine maintenance services.


tory approval from local and inter-national authorities -- DGCA (India), FAA (US), EASA (Europe) and JBAA (Japan). Most leasing companies are based in the US, Europe, Japan and the Middle East. MROs need to have certification from the agencies of the country in which the leasing company (from whom the aircraft is leased) is based.

India still accounts for only 1 per cent of the global MRO business, which itself offers a huge potential for growth, keeping in view the cost advantage and the strategic location that the country has.

The present MRO industry in India suffers from a few constraints like heavy import duties on compo-nents, service tax etc, the Draft Civil Aviation Policy of the Government of India promises to address all such issues and make the industry lucra-tive for the domestic players.

There are two components of the aerospace market that can be tapped by an MRO Hub — the Commercial Aviation market and the General Aviation market. The Commercial Aviation segment consists of the regular flights operated by the commercial airlines like Air In-dia, Indian Airlines, Jet Airways,

IndiGo, Go Air, etc. Airlines in India spend about 13-15 per cent of their revenues towards maintenance, the second-highest cost item for air-lines after fuel. Generally airlines carry on-tarmac inspections (A & B checks) in-house and work with third-party MROs for engine, heavy maintenance (C & D checks) and modifications.

The Indian business aviation mar-ket is complex from the maintenance perspective as it has over 60 different aircraft types operating in a total market of about 350 aircraft (busi-ness jets, turboprops and helicop-ters). Each individual type requires trained technical manpower, tooling, and approvals from regulator as well as the OEM to enable an MRO to offer world-class maintenance services. Creation of this infrastruc-ture requires a level of investment (both initial and recurring) which most MROs do not find economically viable to support.

MROs IN INDIAGiven the growth of Indian aer-ospace, it is logical to build MRO infrastructure to support current and future growth in the sector. MRO companies believe that this segment

offers significant opportunity since demand for MRO activities/ facilities is high.

According to CII, India's MRO segment is estimated to grow at 10 per cent and reach USD 2.6 billion by 2021. In addition, given the pipeline of planned MROs, it is expected that the first mover would obtain high market share and visibility.

Airframe is the prime candidate for off-shoring to India, especially for airlines with over 30 aircraft, due to its labour intensive nature. As the MRO competency grows over the period, line maintenance and component repairs can be taken up next. Engine overhaul would be the last segment to be taken up after the MRO facility has matured.

The development of the Fixed Base Operator (FBO) can be under-taken in parallel, based on the follow-ing rationale: FBO requires minimal investments over and above the investments required for the MRO; basic aircraft landing facilities (in-cluding the runway) will need to be developed in any case for the MRO; and additional requirements for the FBO include additional taxiways, parking bays and other buildings related to general aviation. g

Service provider Service Aircraft

Deccan ChartersBoth aircraft and

helicopters, but mainly helicopters

Bell 207, Bell 407, EC145, Cessna Citation, Agusta

Indemar Co. Ltd. Both, but mainly aircraft Bell 407, Super King Air, Cessna 525, Hawker 800, Falcon, Hawker

Saraya Aviation Aircraft Beech Bonanza, Beech Baron, Cessna Citation, Super King Air B-200

Vectra Aviation/ Global Vectra

Helicopter EC-155, EC 130, EC 120, AS 350, Bell 412,H15

Ind° Pacific Both Cessna Citation, Bell 407, Robinson R 44

Magnum Aviation Components and aircraftMain wheel, nose wheel & brake manufactured by ABSC,USA,

installed on EMBRAER-17075/190 and Fokker-50 aircraft NBT

Vikram Aviation Components

OSS Air Management Helicopter Augusta series, Bell 430

Bharat Aviation Components

Livewell Air Team Components

Varman EngineAircraft engines and

componentsP&W PT6a-21/27

Taneja Aerospace Aircraft Engines P&W PT6a-21, P&W PT6a-27, Lyncomin, Continental

General Aviation Sector MROs


Preetinder Kaur Sodhi

During the last decade, the civil aviation sector has grown at

a phenomenal pace and India has emerged as the 9th largest civil aviation market in the world, with a size of USD 16 billion in terms of the market size. According to the KPMG-FICCI report, the Indian Civil Aviation Industry has a vision of becoming the third largest aviation market by 2020 and is expected to be the largest by 2030.

The Civil Aviation Industry in India has ushered in a new era of expansion driven by factors such as Low Cost Carriers (LCC), modern airports, Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in domestic airlines, cutting edge Information Technology (IT) interventions and growing emphasis on regional connectivity.

The total air traffic (in terms of aircraft movement) and passenger traffic has increased steadily during the last three years, with the latter registering an annual growth rate of 4.5 per cent and 10.3 per cent for 2012-13 and 2013-14, respectively. In-dia's scheduled airlines carried 67.73 million passengers in 2014 compared with 61.42 million passengers in 2013, and 58.81 million in 2012, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

Air traffic in India grew between 20 and 40 per cent for six years starting 2003, when low-fare airlines launched their services making it possible for more people to travel by air.

According to a recent study by the International Air Transport Associ-ation (IATA), India's domestic travel

demand grew at the highest rate worldwide. There is huge untapped potential for growth in the Indian aviation industry due to the fact that access to aviation is still a dream for nearly 99.5 per cent of its large popu-lation, nearly 40 per cent of which is the upwardly mobile middle class.

The airlines are projected to record a collective operating profit of Rs 8,100 crore (USD 1.29 billion) in fiscal year 2016, according to a CRISIL study.

The government agencies have projected that about 500 airports in all, both brownfield and greenfield, would be required by 2020. According to the Working Group on Civil Avia-tion Sector for the Ministry of Civil

Aviation, it is estimated that com-mercial fleet size is expected to reach 1,000 by 2020 from 400 at present, and to 1,000 general aviation aircraft by 2020 (including fleet renewal).

By 2,030, 1,019 aircraft would be inducted by scheduled passenger airlines. The fleet size of general aviation aircraft and helicopters is expected to expand roughly by 2,000 in the next ten years.

General aviation plays a signifi-cant role in the expansion and growth of the scheduled commercial market. Therefore, it is important to note that India's future aviation growth in scheduled commercial aircraft partially depends upon the growth of the general aviation sector. g

Civil aviation industry all set to fly highThe industry has the vision of becoming the third largest aviation market by 2020, and is expected to be the largest by 2030

Government of India

Ministry of Civil Aviation (MCA) Policy formulation, oversight and development of aviation infrastructure

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)

Apex regulatory authority responsible for registrations and inspection of aircraft,

facilities and manpower

Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)

Security clearance of directors and key personnel of all operators (aviation service

providers, airliners etc) in the aviation sector

Airport Authority of India (AAI) Airport management, air traffic management

Ministry of Defence (MoD) Air traffic control regarding MoD controlled airspace

State government

Department of Civil Aviation (DCA)Policy formulation, oversight and

development of aviation infrastructure at state level

Key agencies governing Indian aviation sector

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Parveen K Modi

What new facilities you plan to introduce for the patients coming to the PGIMS?

The PGIMS has many cards up its

sleeve. Topping our list of priorities are the facility for kidney transplant; doubling the capacity of the Glucose Manufacturing Unit (GMU) from 1,000 to 2,000 bottles per day; and set-ting up a Sports Injury Centre. Ours

will be the first institute in Haryana in the public sector to offer the facil-ities of kidney transplant and have a centre for treating sports injuries. Doctors and nurses of PGIMS would be imparted training in kidney

UHS sets sights highHe has set his sights high. Barely one-and-half months in the seat of the Vice-Chancellor of Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Prof O P Kalra, former Principal of the University College of Medical Sciences (University of Delhi) and a renowned nephrologist, has his task cut out and vision clear.

In a free-wheeling interview with Haryana Review, Prof Kalra disclosed that the PGIMS was gearing up to start many a new facility, including kidney transplant. Opening a broad window on his vision about the university and the PGIMS, Prof Kalra, who has been conferred the prestigious shield of excellence award by the Health Premier League for his immense contribution to the field of medical education and healthcare in individual category, answered a wide range of questions, including the awkward ones with the ease a knife enjoys through the butter. He seems determined to even out all odds in catapulting the PGIMS to the league of top ten peers across the country. There are odds but there is lot of potential too, he avers. Here go excerpts from the interview:

Mr O P Kalra, Vice-Chancellor, UHS, Rohtak

PGIMS plans to offer facility of kidney transplant and set up centre for sports injuries

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transplant at AIIMS in New Delhi. I have been asked to set the ball rolling for setting up the facility and we are moving fast in the matter. Presently, the people of the state have to visit various private hospitals in New Delhi and other cities, but once this facility comes up here, they would be relieved of this problem.

Besides, we plan to start various new super-specialties training pro-grammes in nephrology, neurology and neuro-surgery. Postgraduate training programmes in emergency medicine, sports medicine and MDS in oral pathology are also being started. Process has been initiated for supplementing radiological diag-nostic facilities by providing CT scan and MRI services under public-pri-vate partnership which will drasti-cally cut down the waiting period for the patients.

We are also in the process of upgrading our library facilities, augmenting e-resources and have a digital library. A faculty house has been planned for the visitors and ex-aminers coming to various colleges of the university.

Will kidney transplant at PGIMS cost lower than the market?

Yes! The facility will cost the peo-

ple of Haryana much less. Kidney transplant in a private hospital costs anything between Rs 4 and Rs 5 lakh but at PGIMS, it would be made available for about Rs 50,000.

How is the Glucose Manufacturing Unit (GMU) manufacturing fluids for the patients, doing?

Let me share with you that we have decided to increase the produc-tion of parenteral fluids at our on-the-campus Glucose Manufacturing Unit (GMU) from 1,000 bottles to 2,000 bottles per day.

The target is sought to be achieved by procuring a new boiler for effec-tive steam generation; a 500 bot-tles-per-cycle-capacity sterilizer; nec-essary lab equipment; and additional technical and other manpower.

Has the elevation of the PGIMS to the status of University of Health Sciences, made any difference to medical education and the patients coming to the Institute for treatment?

Being the sole university of health sciences in Haryana and also respon-sible for supervising its five constit-uent colleges in Rohtak, we have the huge task of maintaining academic

standards, conducting entrance and qualifying examinations, and making evaluation for the grant of affiliation for various academic programmes for 80 other medical, dental, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy, ayurvedic and homeopathic colleges dotting the length and breadth of the state.

The elevation of PGIMS has facilitated quicker decisions for the procurement and repair of equip-ment meant for patient care, helped in filling up various posts, and hiring the required manpower. All this has had a positive impact on making medical care prompt and efficient which directly works to the advan-tage of the patients.

What is your vision about PGIMS, Rohtak? How do you look at the institute five years down the line?

PGIMS has a strong legacy lasting more than 50 years and we have to sustain it. My vision about PGIMS is that it should rub shoulders with the topmost medical institutes in the country, and provide quality healthcare to the people of Haryana who now have to go to Delhi or other places for getting specialised medical treatment. We aim to create a large pool of specialised trained manpow-

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er in the field of medical and allied health sciences to bridge the gap between the demand and supply.

We have to strengthen our emergency care and trauma servic-es department which have direct and profound impact on prompt and efficient care of the critically ill patients coming to the Institute. In addition, we need to raise the standard of medical education and conduct relevant research in medical and allied health sciences.

Being the torch-bearer in the field of health sciences in the state, we have to set high standards in medi-cal education, research and patient care for all colleges in the state and outside. I am sure with sustained efforts, the PGIMS would soon rank among the top 10 medical colleges in the country

Having been in the saddle of VC for close to one-and-half months, you must have sized up the strengths and weaknesses of PGIMS. Give a lowdown on your assessment.

The UHS has several strengths. We have a massive, sprawling campus spread over 360 acres of land and state-of-art infrastructure. Rohtak city is a part of the National Capital Region (NCR) and is well connected with Delhi through rapid surface

transport facility. Home to a number of leading educational institutes and Maharshi Dayanand University located in close proximity, Rohtak provides an ideal platform for close collaboration in inter-disciplinary teaching and research.

We have a large number of undergraduate, postgraduate and super-specialty training programmes in addition to Ph.D and short-term courses. The on-the-campus Post-graduate Institute of Dental Sciences ranks among the top seven dental colleges in the country. We have State Institute of Mental Health. The Department of Psychiatry enjoys excellent reputation for providing quality mental healthcare. Only re-cently, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has recognised the psychiatry set-up as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ and provided grant for its development.

Our university has been sanc-tioned funds under the Prime Minis-ter’s Swasthya Suraksha Yojana for upgradation of various infrastruc-tural facilities and procurement of high-end equipment. In addition, the Department of Health Research, Union Ministry of Health & Fami-ly Welfare, has provided support for setting up a

Multi-disciplinary Research Unit at PGIMS. Our Chancellor and Hary-ana Governor, Prof Kaptan Singh Solanki, is an extremely dynamic and visionary leader and is a source of constant encouragement to the faculty and other staff.

The state government is providing full support for the overall growth of the university. Recently, the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, and the Health Minister, Mr Anil Vij, visited the university and made some valua-ble suggestions for improving patient care services, medical education and welfare of the staff.

But, of course, there are some areas which call for urgent attention. These include operationalisation of the Trauma Block, Maternity and Children Hospital, new Operation Theatre complex, and Intensive Care Unit. We need to take several steps to boost high quality and relevant research in health sciences.

What’s your roadmap for removing the snags that dog the path of the PGI?

We need to take drastic steps to improve the emergency and trauma

Trauma Centre, PGIMS

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care services at PGIMS. The casualty department and accident and emer-gency services hold the mirror to any hospital. We should have 24-hour availability of diagnostic services and life-saving medicines and equip-ment, especially for the patients admitted in casualty, labour room, ICUs and the Trauma Centre.

How do you plan to tackle the problem of overcrowding in most wards of the PGI, especially in the maternity ward, where two new-borns on a single bed, is a common sight?

We encounter maximum crowd in the casualty, labour room and Radiology Department. After opera-tionalisation of the new 104-bedded Trauma Centre, 200-bedded Ma-ternity and Children Hospital and additional facilities of CT Scan/MRI, the existing facilities will get decongested to a large extent.

Presently, our labour room and nursery for neonates are over-crowded. In the new Maternity and Children Hospital, in addition to 141 beds for maternity care, we will have 59 beds for nursery. For the large number of patients who require surgical intervention and for critically ill patients requiring immediate care, we are in the pro-cess of developing the state-of-art

Modular Operation Theatre complex having 16 operation theatres and 32-bedded Intensive Care Unit. This will surely lessen the burden on the existing operation theatres and Intensive Care Unit at PGIMS.

Any plans to provide more facilities to the large number of attendants bringing the patients along who, for want of accommodation, can now be seen clogging the corridors of the PGI?

We attend close to 6,000 patients in various outpatient departments and approximately 300 patients are admitted every day. We have a large tertiary care hospital with more than 1,700 beds. Many patients are coming to the hospital from far-off cities and villages. We have the facility of ‘Vishram Sadan’ which offers the facility of short-term stay for the attendants. In addition, we have constructed some sheds for the attendants of patients in the waiting areas.

They say research is to academics, especially in the field of medical science, what blood is to human body. Any specific plans to boost research activity?

The university provides an ideal opportunity for nurturing and pro-

moting inter-disciplinary research and innovation. We plan to set up a research cell and constitute a Research Advisory Committee. We are in the process of developing a multi-disciplinary research unit at PGIMS with financial support from the Department of Health Research, Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

Collaboration with MDU is being renewed for inter-disciplinary research. We also plan to initiate the scheme of Intramural Research Grant for young faculty members and post-graduates. Plans are also being drawn to encourage medical students to undertake minor re-search projects.

What message you would like to convey to the PGI faculty and other members of the staff?

We must believe that the interests of the university, the state and the country are above individual inter-ests. Being the sole health science university in Haryana, its constitu-ent colleges in Rohtak have to set an example for the affiliated colleges in the state to emulate. We all must always rise above partisan politics and work as a dedicated team to ensure that the interests of our stu-dents and patients are serviced and protected. g


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Haryana is set for a date with grass root level democracy. The polls for

the grass root level democratic insti-tutions , both urban and rural, will be held in two phases. In the first phase, Panchayati Raj Institutes (PRIs), comprising zila parishads, panchayat samitis and gram panchayats, would be covered; and in the second phase, Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) compris-ing municipal corporations, municipal councils and municipal committees or nagar panchayats would be covered.

In Haryana, there are a total of 6,248 gram panchayats, 126 panchayat samitis and 21 zila parishads and 419 wards of zila parishads. There are two municipal corporations—Faridabad and Karnal, 16 municipal councils and 27 municipal committees.

During the 4th General Elec-

tion of PRIs there were 6,075 gram panchayats, 119 panchayat samitis and 21 zila parishads, whose election were conducted in the months of June and July, 2010. This time (5th General Election), there are 6,248 gram panchayats, 126 panchayat samitis and 21 zila parishads in the state, for which 63,104 panches, 6,248 sarpanches, 3,018 members of panchayat samitis and 419 members of zila parishad are to be elected. The election of these seats is to be conducted in the months of August/September, 2015.

FIRST-TIME INITIATIVESThe Election Commission has taken many first-time initiatives related to rules, voters’ list and EVMs for the conduct of these elections. This is the first time when this Commission is going to use multi post EVMs to conduct elections of the seats of

Member Panchayat Samitis and Zila Parishad of two districts i.e. Panch-kula and Rewari.

Nearly 45,551 EVMs of Single Post (Ballot Units (BUs) and Control Units (CUs)) and 1,289 CUs and 2,578 BUs of Multi-post EVMs would be used for the conduct of the elections of Sarpanch-es, Members Zila Parishads and Mem-bers of two Panchayat Samitis i.e. Rewari and Panchkula. Nearly 45,551 ballot boxes would be used for the conduct of elections of panches and members of 19 Panchayat Samitis. The motive of this Commission behind the use of EVMs is to bring transparency in the elections and avoid litigations.

The general elections of Mu-nicipal Corporation Faridabad, 16 Municipal Councils and 27 Municipal Committees were due in the month of May/June, 2015. The work of delimitation of wards of 10 Mu-nicipal Councils and 21 Municipal Committees has been completed by the government so far. The process for the preparation of ward-wise and polling station-wise electoral rolls of all these municipalities, are in progress and the final electoral rolls shall be published on August 10, 2015 and September 10, 2015. g

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Panchayati Raj Institutions in Haryana - 2015

Sr. No.

Name of districtNo. of blocks in the district

No. of gram panchayats

No. of panches

No. of members panchayat samiti

No. of members zila parishad

1 AMBALA 6 408 3,230 122 15

2 BHIWANI 10 470 4,870 231 30

3 FARIDABAD 2 116 1,304 60 10

4 FATEHABAD 6 258 2,707 138 18

5 GURGAON 4 214 2,055 108 15

6 HISAR 9 309 3,910 225 30

7 JHAJJAR 5 250 2,670 122 19

8 JIND 7 301 3,486 177 26

9 KAITHAL 6 278 2,930 142 21

10 KARNAL 6 382 3,834 179 25

11 KURUKSHETRA 6 394 3,371 127 17

12 MAHENDERGARH 8 346 3,287 157 20

13 MEWAT 5 316 3,434 146 25

14 PALWAL 5 262 2,832 138 21

15 PANCHKULA 4 128 992 42 10

16 PANIPAT 6 176 2,154 135 17

17 ROHTAK 5 139 1,817 109 14

18 REWARI 5 360 3,206 133 18

19 SIRSA 7 340 3,596 186 24

20 SONIPAT 8 330 3,663 203 26

21 YAMUNANAGAR 6 471 3,756 138 18

TOTAL 126 6,248 63,104 3,018 419


Some feel the rain, others just get wetMonsoon is not only drops of water, it is the love of sky for Earth. They never meet each other, but sky sends love this way.

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Enjoying bicycle ride in rain


All set to get wet

Umbrella to the rescue



Caught in a downpour



Driving in blinding rain

HARYANA REVIEW AUGUST 201536 CABINET DECISIONS

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Blazing a new trail, the Haryana Government has put in place

new criteria for the recruitment of teachers. According to the revised criteria, out of the 100 marks, 80 have been kept for the written test, eight for experience, i.e one mark for each completed year of service in the respective category, subject to the maximum of eight. The interview will carry 12 marks.

The new criteria for the recruit-ment of teachers of all categories, that is Primary Teachers (PRTs), Trained Graduate Teachers (TGTs) and Post Graduate Teachers (PGTs), has been approved by the Haryana Cabinet which met under the chair-manship of the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal.

The academic qualifications required for the post of PGTs for direct recruitment are-- at least 50 per cent marks in post graduate degree in concerned subjects; B Ed from recognised university; matric with Hindi or Sanskrit or 10+2/BA/MA with Hindi as one of the sub-jects; certificate of having qualified Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test (HTET)/ School Teachers Eligibility Test (STET) and consistent good academic record.

NO TOLL ON SOME ROADS The state government has also taken a policy decision not to charge toll on such roads which meet one of the five given conditions -- the investment made on improvement of roads is less than Rs 15 crore; the annual tax collection is less than Rs one crore; deferring of the toll on road segments which are in very bad condition to avoid public criticism; shifting of toll points which are in municipal limits; and closure of toll points on roads which are subsequently notified as national highways.

As a result of this policy deci-sion, the government has decided to close five Toll Plazas (TPs) on such roads which have been repaired or strengthened with an expenditure of less than Rs 15 crore or where the toll collection is less than Rs one crore.

While two toll plazas TP-47 – Tosham to Hisar road at 26.7 km and TP-48 – Tosham to Bhiwani road at 70 km due to investment of less than Rs 15 crore have been closed with immediate effect, two toll plazas TP-10 Budhlada-Ratia-Fatehabad road (near Punjab Border) and TP-20

Hansi-Tosham-Sodhiwas road near village Sodhiwas at RD 201 were approved for closure on August 5, 2015 and July 16, 2016, respectively due to toll collection of less than Rs one crore per annum. The Toll Plaza TP-37 Ferozepur Jhirka-Biwan road has been approved to be closed with effect from November 1, 2015.

24 TOLL POINTS TRANSFERREDThe Cabinet has also decided to transfer the work of toll collection of 24 Toll Points (TPs) in the state from Haryana State Roads and

Score 80% in test to become a teacher

The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, presiding over the Cabinet meeting in Chandigarh

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Score 80% in test to become a teacherCABINET DECISIONS

Bridges Development Corporation (HSRDC) to Public Works (Building and Roads) Department.

The toll points which have been transferred to Public Works (Build-ing and Roads) Department are TP-2 [Gurgaon-Pataudi Road (at km 10 near Gurgaon)], TP-3 [Gur-gaon-Farrukhnagar-Jhajjar Road (at km 7 near Gurgaon)], TP-10 [Budhlada-Ratia-Fatehabad Road (near Punjab Border)],TP-12 [Yamu-nanagar-Radaur-Ladwa-Thanesar Road (at km 40 near Yamunana-gar)], TP-13 [Shamli-Panipat Road

(near Uttar Pradesh Border)], TP-18 [Narnaul-Nizampur Road (near Ra-jasthan Border)], TP-20 [Hansi-Tos-ham-Sodhiwas Road (at RD 201.00)], TP-22 [Uklana-Tohana-Munak Road (near Punjab Border)], TP-23 [Kaithal-Khanauri Road (near Pun-jab Border)], TP-24 [Kaithal-Patiala Road (near Punjab Border)], TP-25 [Pehowa-Patiala Road (near Punjab Border)], TP-26 [Kala Amb-Sadhau-ra-Shahbad Road (near Himachal Border)], TP-27 [Rohtak-Kharkhau-da-Delhi Border Road (near Delhi Border)], TP-30 [Kotputli-Budhw-

al-Nangal Chaudhary-Narnaul Road (near Rajasthan Border)] TP-37 [Ferozepur Zhirka-Biwan Road upto Rajasthan Border (at RD 3800 and 11900 meter)], TP-38[Neval-Gheer-Garhi Birbal Road (at km 1.00 and at km 52.00)], TP-39 [Hodal-Nuh-Patau-di-Patauda Road at km 6.000, 53.000 and km 67.750], TP-40 [Rai-Nahra-Ba-hadurgarh Road at km 2.600 and km 34.200], TP-41 [Pehowa-Ladwa-Saha-ranpur-Haridwar Road (Section 3rd gate of KUK to Pehowa) at km 98.00], TP-42 [Punhana-Jurhera Road upto Rajasthan Border (at km 6.00)], TP-44 [Saha-Shahbad Road at km 57.800 and km 70.900], TP-45 [Karnal-Ramba-In-dri-Ladwa Road at km 27 (SH-7)], TP-47 [Tosham to Hisar Road at km 26.700 (Between Village Balalwas and village Nalwa)] and TP-48 [Tosham to Bhiwani Road at km 70.00].

PENSION TO BE STEPPED UPThe Cabinet has also decided to add rule 6A in Haryana Civil Services (Revised Pension) Part-I Rules, 2009.

Under rule 6A, the pension of pre-2006 pensioners shall be stepped up with effect from February 6, 2015 to 50 per cent of the sum of minimum of pay in the pay band and the grade pay corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale (including Higher Adminis-trative Grade Scale) from which the pensioner had retired.

The normal family pension of pre-2006 family pensioners shall also be stepped up with effect from Febru-ary 6, 2015 to 30 per cent of the sum of minimum of pay in the pay band and the grade pay corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale (including Higher Administrative Grade Scale) in which the government servant had retired.

The proposal of Higher Education Department regarding issuance of an Ordinance for changing the name of ITM University, Gurgaon to North-cap University, Gurgaon, has also been approved by the Cabinet. g

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With a view to injecting more efficiency in the working of the

state government, the Chief Minis-ter, Mr Manohar Lal, has inducted three new ministers in his Cabinet.

The Governor, Prof Kaptan Singh Solanki, administered the oath of af-firmation and secrecy as ministers to three legislators at a simple ceremo-ny held at the Haryana Raj Bhawan. While Mr Krishan Lal Panwar was sworn in as Cabinet Minister, Mr Ghanshyam Saraf was administered oath as Minister of State with Inde-pendent Charge and Mr Nayab Singh as Minister of State.

Apart from the Chief Minister, his Cabinet colleagues, legislators, sen-ior officers of the state government, family members as well as well wish-ers of the newly sworn-in ministers were also present on the occasion.

Later, the Chief Minister admin-istered the oath of affirmation and secrecy to four legislators as chief parliamentary secretaries. They are Mr Shyam Singh Rana, Mr Bakhsh-ish Singh Virk, Mrs Seema Trikha and Dr Kamal Gupta. While all newly sworn-in ministers and chief parliamentary secretaries took oath in Hindi, Mr Bakhshish Singh Virk took oath in Punjabi.

Now, after the expansion of the

Cabinet, apart from the Chief Minis-ter, there are seven Cabinet min-isters, two ministers of state with independent charge and three minis-ters of state. Also, now there are four chief parliamentary secretaries.

Mr Manohar Lal said that the present government was sensitive to the aspirations of the people and had been discharging its duty with a commitment to live up to their aspi-rations. He further added that with the expansion of the State Cabinet and swearing in of new chief parlia-mentary secretaries, the government would be able to serve the people in a better way.

Every department has ample op-portunities to work. The government has been working true to the spirit of "Haryana Ek - Haryanavi Ek" (One Haryana - United Haryanavis), he added. g

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The Governor, Prof Kaptan Singh Solanki, and the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, with newly sworn-in ministers Mr Krishan Lal Panwar, Mr Ghanshyam Saraf and Mr Nayab Singh in Chandigarh

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State Nutrition Commission to be set up soon

The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, has announced that with a view to redressing the issue of malnutrition among children, the state govern-ment has started the process to set up State Nutrition Commission and to formulate State Nutrition Policy.

The Chief Minister was speak-ing at a mega event organised on ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao’ Pro-gramme in Gurgaon. He said that the aim of State Nutrition Mission was healthy child, healthy teenager, healthy mother and healthy Harya-na. It has been decided that action would be taken under State Nutrition Mission according to the guidelines of UNICEF and WHO. UNICEF has set three parameters to monitor the nutritional level. These are age, weight and height. Haryana had two parameters to check nutritional lev-el; one was age and other was weight. Now the government would incorpo-rate the parameter of height.

According to the NFHS-3 2005-06 Survey, 40 per cent children of

Haryana are underweight, 46 per cent children are dwarf and 19 per cent are underweight as compared to their height. According to the survey conducted in 2013-14 by National In-stitute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, 27.85 per cent children up to five years of age in Haryana were under weight, 34.1 per cent children were dwarf and weight of 11 per cent children were underweight as compared to their height.

Rope-way between Dhaula Kuan and Manesar

The Union Minister for Road Trans-port and Highways, Mr Nitin Gadka-ri, has announced to start rope-way transport system between Dhaula Kuan and Mansesar via Gurgaon. Estimated per km cost of this project would be Rs 50 crore as compared to Rs 350 crore per kilometer of Metro. Based on new technology, it would help in decongestion of traffic and provide facility to the people of Hary-ana and Delhi.

The Union Minister also an-nounced a 150-km four-lane nation-al highway project from Hisar to Bathinda via Adampur, Fatehabad, Ratia, and Mansa. It would be made of concrete. The express highway from Delhi to Katra via Ludhiana and Amritsar would also be constructed.

He also laid foundation stones of two road projects involving a total investment of Rs 1,821.20 crore at Saha in district Ambala. Mr Gadkari also sanctioned eight new national highways that would pass through Haryana and added that ring roads would be constructed for Panchku-la-Chandigarh and Mohali, Ambala City as well as Ambala Cantt and Karnal. In addition, he announced a three kms long elevated highway at Badshahpur in Gurgaon. g

THE MONTH THAT WAS

The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, greets noted actress, Ms Parineeti Chopra, at the mega event organised for ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao’ programme in Gurgaon. The Social Justice and Empowerment Minister, Mrs Kavita Jain, is also seen in the picture

The Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Mr Nitin Gadkari, laying foundation stones of two road projects at Saha in Ambala district. To his left is the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal


Jagdeep Kaur

If you’ve ever chanced upon the colourful murals of Bollywood

stars that adorn the many walls in Mumbai, you should thank Ranjit Dahiya, an artist from Sonipat dis-trict in Haryana.

These murals are a part of the Bollywood Art Project, which was initiated by Ranjit in 2012 to cele-brate the centenary of the Hindi film industry. The trained artist from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, says that the project is one of the biggest street art cam-paigns in India till date.

A short, burly man with long black hair tied neatly behind his head, Dahiya, 36, openly expresses his love for Bollywood. But when he came to Mumbai in 2008, he was surprised to see that there was “no major Bollywood presence in Mum-bai” – at least not in a visual sense. He found this odd since Mumbai is known worldwide for its film industry and took it upon himself to fix this.

Dahiya decided to combine his love for wall painting along with his love for Bollywood. He got the idea from The Wall Project, started in Mumbai to liven up the city’s often dreary walls with graffiti painting, much of it amateur.

BOLLYWOOD ART PROJECTAs a part of the Bollywood Art Project, Dahiya is painting the walls of Mumbai with colourful rendi-tions of India's favourite actors and characters. The first one was from the film Anarkali of Anarkali and Salim, followed by a classic Amitabh Bachchan from Deewar. The third painting was that of the first super-star of Bollywood, Rajesh Khanna, soon after his demise.

“My latest addition to Mumbai is the mural painting of legendary Da-dasaheb Phalke. It was my dream to paint the Father of Indian Cinema,” says Dahiya.

Approximately 20,000 sq feet in size, it is the biggest mural in India. “It was a well planned project, so that I could complete it in the decid-

ed time of just seven days. Drawing the sketch took me two whole days” he adds.

The youngster might have gradu-ated from one of the most prestigious design institutes in the country, but he journeyed into the world of art via painting walls. Born in a village called Garhi Brahamanan, near Sonipat in Haryana, Dahiya, after finishing Class X, wanted to be an artist but his desire clashed with the multiple life pressures he had to encounter.

His father Shri Krishan Dahi-ya was worried about his future, because he dropped out of school in class XI and started wrestling in one of the Akhadas in the town. Ranjit was not studying or earning, so he took up the job of whitewashing public areas like the Sonipat railway station on a contractual basis to earn and start his career.

It was a chance encounter with a school principal that led Dahiya into taking a big decision in life. The prin-cipal gave him the job of painting a large image of Goddess Saraswati on

Meet Sonipat-born artist Ranjit Dahiya who makes mural paintings of Bollywood stars in Mumbai

Romancing Bollywood with paints

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a school wall, and it was during this time that Dahiya decided to get into painting and widen his horizons.

"I approached a relative who was a painter in Panipat and worked with him for a while. I learnt the basic techniques of painting and typog-raphy. My work included painting street advertisements on walls, facades and vehicles,” he recalls.

He also felt the need to study fur-ther but prominent fine arts colleges would not admit a Class X pass-out. While studying through correspond-ence for a degree from IGNOU, he was approached by bigger contrac-tors who wanted advertisements of big cola brands, tractors and family planning campaigns painted on the walls of large motels on highways.

"Painting a 1,600-sq-ft area in a sin-gle day gave me the confidence that no teacher could," he says candidly. "I soon got to know about a man who painted posters for Bollywood mov-ies in Delhi. I was fascinated and my skills came in handy with large-sized paintings," he avers.

EXPLORING SCIENCE OF ARTSimultaneously, Dahiya pursued graphics in the Government Col-lege of Art, Chandigarh and from there went on to complete a Master's degree in graphic design from NID in 2007. "Here, I explored and imbibed the aesthetics and science of art. NID taught me the system of design thinking,” he says.

In 2009, the artist travelled to Paris to make a live 32x12 ft poster of the movie Sarkar Raj (2008) at the Salon Du Cinema. "Here I realised that Bollywood was not just an In-dian phenomenon but a global one," he says.

"In 2010, I was invited by the City Council of La Rochelle France to hold an exhibition at the La Rochelle International Film Festival," he adds. 'History of Bollywood', a collection of 31 posters made by him, later trav-elled to Durban for the 28th Durban International Film Festival. And the rest is history.

Dahiya says it is an advantage to know everything about painting walls--from cleaning them to adding the finishing touches. “Murals are a

combination of the wall and the art form and the chemistry between the two is important,” he says. He still uses the same kind of shoe brushes and enamel paint he used when he painted houses and trucks.

Other than his love for Bollywood, Dahiya says that the feedback he has received from residents inspires him. Recently, a family gave him a bouquet of flowers as a token of their appreciation. “The guy selling pani puris (a savory Indian snack) near my Anarkali painting never takes any money from me,” he says.

MURAL PAINTINGEach mural costs Rs 27,000-37,000 ($500-$700) to paint and takes about 10 days to make. Since the walls are private property, he needs the per-mission of the owners before he can go ahead with the murals.

Getting permission to paint on a wall from the residents of the build-ing is usually not very hard, though there are exceptions. One woman, for instance, told him he would have to pay 50,000 rupees to paint on their wall, an amount he couldn’t afford.

Dahiya has been trying to convince people to fund the project

but has not been successful so far. He doesn’t want a company name or logo on his mural and that makes money hard to come by.

He says that despite the difficul-ties, he loves the spirit of Mumbai and has no intention of leaving the city. “I have started looking at every wall as a potential wall for my murals.”

The first project he plans to under-take post monsoon is a painting of Helen, the first item girl of Bolly-wood. Dahiya also has major plans to paint Mumbai’s streets with the images of as many as 50 Bollywood musicians, directors and villains over the next year.

With that spirit and skill set, we wish him more paintings and success! g

The writer is a freelance journalist

Ranjit Dahiya with Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan


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The King of Fruits reigned the Yadavindra Gardens in Pinjore

from July 4-5, 2015. The event was the 24th Mango Mela which was

organised by the Haryana Tourism Department with a lot of enthusi-asm. A large number of visitors thronged the Gardens, despite sultry weather. For the first time, yoga sessions were also organised at the

Mango Mela.Mango growers from the different

states of India participated in the Mela and exhibited different mango varieties and products. Hundreds of varieties of mangoes from as far as Maharasthra, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh and also from Haryana, Himachal and Punjab arrived here, delighting everyone with their hy-brid shapes and quality.

The Mela was inaugurated by the Tourism Minister, Mr Ram Bilas Sharma. Mr Ratan Lal Kataria, Min-ister of Parliament from Ambala and Mrs Latika Sharma, MLA, Kalka, also graced the occasion.

The mango display area was packed with visitors who wanted to catch a glimpse of various varieties of mango and purchase them. The

Marked by yoga sessions for the first time, the 24th Mango Mela was celebrated with lot of enthusiasm at Pinjore Gardens

Folk artists performing at Mango Mela

Mango melange mingles with yoga


Tourism Minister took a round of the Mela and appreciated the varie-ties on display.

The Principal Secretary (tour-ism), Mrs Sumita Misra, said that the main objective for organising the two-day event was to encour-age fruit growers to adopt latest practices to increase the mango production and quality, so that they may get maximum return from their produce by tapping domestic and international market.

For the first time, yoga sessions were also organised at the Man-go Mela by Shobhna Juneja of Yoga Sadka. Mr Ram Bilas Sharma also visited a yoga session where a group of school students were being taught different asanas.

Apart from the mango eating

Yoga session

Students participating in the mango cut-out competition


competition and mango quiz, many innovative competitions, includ-ing mango cut-out competition and mango story writing, were organ-ised. Over 45 students took part in these two competitions and spilled their creativity through colours and words.

SENIOR CITIZENS INVITEDIn tune with its corporate social responsibility initiative, the Haryana Tourism had specially invited senior citizens from registered societies of Panchkula and Pinjore for the event. Senior citizens displayed immense confidence and stamina in their dance and singing performances and entertained visitors with their poems, songs and wisecracks. They also participated in a yoga session designed especially for them.

If senior citizens unleashed their hidden talent, the kids too put their best foot forward during a Kids Fashion Show organised for the age group 5-8 years. The tiny tots took away many hearts as they cat walked both in ethnic and western outfits on the ramp.

The group dance competitions for schools had students performing folk and Bollywood dances. These high-voltage dance performances added verve to the Mela.

Popular Punjabi singer Sarthi

Students participating in mango-eating competition

A Haryanvi folk dancer enthralls the audience


K was the star attraction at the cultural evening programme and his mellifluous voice left the audience asking for more. He sang many folk and popular Punjabi numbers to entertain the audience.

FOOD AND CRAFTThe Crafts Bazaar and Food Court were a big hit with visitors. The craftspersons from different parts of the country registered a good business for their handlooms and handicrafts. The people beelined for the ice cream, kulfi and street food counters at the Food Court where adequate seating arrangements had been made.

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A Gatka performance at the mela

Varieties of mango on display

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Nek Chand, the creator of Rock Garden

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Vinay Malik

A finger presses the trigger of a camera: a slight motion, but it

captures a moment in our planet’s history that might otherwise have been lost. Which moment? How faith-fully recorded? What can it tell us? A photographer’s decision sums up, in the wink of a shutter, a lifetime’s learning, growth and desires. So the photograph not only preserves a moment but also speaks about it to anyone who sees it.

The pho-tographer and the viewer might never meet, except through the pic-ture, but something of each enters the other when they share what has been captured. In all their intimacy, such moments present a wealth of contradictions. Pho-tography is a brutally impartial instrument of record, but has

a subjective element of persuasion. It describes what is there, while suggesting what is not.

It obeys a rigid set of technical rules, but often expresses sponta-neous emotion. It is both, a casual pastime and a true art, a vault for private memories and a theatre for public information. If you have ever been moved by a photograph and certainly if you have ever want-ed to create one that would move

other people, photography is already for you more than a casual pastime.

I just shoot whatever interests me. Sometimes I don’t go through those contacts for years. Then when I have nothing special or better to do, they fall under my eye balls and I see a good collection of pictures there in my own archive.

During the past month I discov-ered something very nice that I had

captured the life and journey of Late Mr Nek Chand and the Rock Garden. When I usually went to meet him he would jovially say, “You must have clicked thousands of photographs of my life.” I would reply “Yes bauji.” And then he would say, “When can I see all of them together.” I would joke, “Bauji, you will have to take another birth to see all of them.” He would laugh and say, “Sahi kaha zindagi ka kuch nahin pata.”

On this occasion of World Pho-tography Day, now as one scrolls down the countless number of his pictures, one pays tribute to the great soul the Creator of Rock Garden was. g

Centuries of advances in chemistry and optics, including the invention of the

camera obscura, set the stage for the world’s first photograph. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took the photograph, titled 'View from the Window at Le Gras’, at his family’s country home. Niépce produced his photo—a view of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill. g

Capturing moments through lens

World's first photograph

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On the occasion of World Photography Day, as one scrolls down the countless number of his pictures, one pays tribute to the great soul the Creator of Rock Garden was

WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAYfalls on August 19

Photograph by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce


Saurabh Duggal

A woman’s journey from womb to womanhood in Haryana is the

bumpiest one as compared to other Indian girls. Here, marriage is a compulsory stopover and it arrives even well before one completes her teens. But then there are girls in the Haryanavi hinterland who are ready to defy this gender stereotype. And for them their passion remains the top priority, so much so that they are even ready to shelve their marriage plans.

Regular face of the Indian women hockey team, Deepika Thakur, 28, has put on hold her marriage plans till the 2016 Rio Olympics. Though the final announcement for the Olym-pic berth will be made by October end, the fifth finish performance at the recently concluded Hockey World League semi-finals in Belgium has al-most made it certain that the Indian eves will travel to Rio.

“My mother had given me the ul-timatum to marry till this October. But as now we have qualified for the Olympics, marriage plans have

Grooms have to wait for these brides till 2016Defying the gender stereotypes, many Haryana sportswomen shelve their marriage plans for Rio Olympics

Deepika Thakur

Geeta Phogat

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to be postponed till August next year,” says Deepika, who hails from Yamunanagar.

“My father expired in 2013 and since then my mother is not keeping good health. She kept on telling me one thing that I should get married before she dies. So, I decided to go for marriage after the last year held Asian Games. But as we won medal there, I requested my mother to give me few more months till the Olympic qualifiers,” says Deepkia.

“And now as we have almost achieved it, there is no question of getting married before August, 2016. Now my mother too wants that I should focus on my game,” adds Deepika, whose all three elder sisters got married before 26 years.

Deepika is not the only one from the hinterland, who has put the marriage plans on hold, because of the quadrennial games. Glasgow Commonwealth Games (2014) Silver medalist wrestler Lalita, 22, who got engaged to former international wrestler Balraj Nain in 2012, has also put the marriage plans on hold keep-ing in view the Rio Olympics.

SUPPORTIVE FIANCÉLalita has made it to the eight-mem-ber squad for the World Champion-ship at Las Vegas, USA, to be held in September. The world meet is the first qualifiers for the 2016 Olympics. “My fiancé is very supportive and playing a pivotal role in shaping my wrestling career. Keeping in view the prepara-tions for Rio Olympics, we have decid-ed to put the marriage plans on hold,” says Lalita, who hails from Hisar.

As paralysis made Lalita’s father bedridden, the responsibility of tak-ing care of his fiancée’s travel and training has shifted to Balraj.“We have entered into the twenty-first century, but still our families face sarcastic remarks that it’s been such a long time since our engagement and we are yet to get married. But we should just listen to your heart and forget about rest. Moreover people don’t even spare God, so we are just commoners.” says Lalita’s fiancé Balraj.

“So, right now I am only focusing on Lalita’s wrestling career and for

now all other things can take a back seat,” he adds.

Celebrity woman wrestler Geeta Phogat, 26, who made history by becoming the first Indian woman to compete in Olympics, has already put her marriage plans on hold for a long time. “Earlier it was till London Olympics, but now Geeta does not want to discuss the topic of marriage till the Rio Olympics,” says Geeta’s father Mahavir Singh, on whose life Bollywood star Aamir Khan is mak-

ing a movie ‘Dangal’.“In London Games, Geeta’s

performance was average. But then immediately after that in the world championship she won bronze and that changed everything. Now she wants to win medal in Olympics and everything else comes after that,” adds father-cum-coach Mahavir, who hails from Bhiwani. g

The writer is senior sports journalist with Hindustan Times,

Chandigarh

Lalita

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Saurabh Duggal

With sports achievements in quick succession coming to the

credit of the girls from Haryana, one feels that the slogan ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ should be improvised to ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Khilao’. Once again the eves from Haryana have made the gender taboos stand on their head and proved their mettle in the selection trials for the national wrestling squad. As many as seven girls from the state have made it to the eight-member team for the World Championship to be held in Las Ve-gas, USA, from September 7.

And with the eighth member coming from Punjab, the two neigh-bouring states have made up for the entire Indian women contingent. London Olympian Geeta Phogat, who won the trials in the 58kg, will lead the Indian challenge in Las Vegas. She has a bronze medal in the 2012 World Meet in her kitty and this May, she won bronze in the Asian Championship held in Doha.

Geeta’s sister Vinesh, who made it to the medal podium in both Asian and Commonwealth Games held last year, emerged out to be the best choice in the 48kg during the trials held at Sports Authority of India Lucknow centre. Nirmala Devi

(53kg), Lalita (55kg), Sarita (63kg), Anita (63kg) and Nikki (75kg) are the others from the state, who got a place in the national squad.

Punjab’s Navjot, who won bronze medal in the 2014 Glasgow Common-wealth Games, has made it to the

squad in the 69kg weight category. She is employed with Indian Railways.

“The world championship is going to be a very important tournament for us, as the Rio Olympic berth is at stake. All of us are geared up to give our best,” said Geeta, who became the country’s first-ever women wrestler to compete in the Olympics. “Last time in London my performance was only limited to participation, but for Rio I am training hard to make it to the podium finish,” added the Haryana Police employee.

The training camp of the women wrestlers is currently underway at Sports Authority of India Centre in Lucknow and will continue till their departure for the World Championship. g

The writer is senior sports journalist with Hindustan Times,

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Women grapplers prove their prowess

In the eight-member national women’s wrestling squad for the World Championship to be held in Las Vegas, USA, seven players are from Haryana

Vinesh (48kg), *Nirmala Devi (53kg), Lalita (55kg), Geeta Phogat (58kg), Sarita (60kg), Anita (63kg), Nikki (75kg) (all from Haryana), Navjot (69kg) (Punjab).

*In the 53 kg weight category, Nirmala Devi, as of now has been selected for the Kazakhstan tournament (from July 24 to 27), as she will have to give final trial against Babita before the World Championship.

Commonwealth Games

medalist Babita Kumari couldn’t participate in world trials for the world meet due to injury. On the basis of the request from Babita, mentioning her inability to attend the trails, and considering her past performance, the Wrestling Federation of India has decided that the final section for the berth in the world championship squad in the 53 weight category will only be selected in the trials held after Kazakhstan meet.

The team

BETI BACHAO BETI KHILAO

Geeta Phogat

51ART AND CULTUREHARYANA REVIEW AUGUST 2015

Anjana Datta

Topara Kalan village is not more than 15 km away from Yamu-

nanagar on the Kurukshetra-Harid-war road. This hitherto unnoticed village has suddenly drawn atten-tion. The object of focus in this vil-lage is a park called Ashoka Edicts Park which will be built on two acres of land unanimously donated by the village panchayat in 2012 for the purpose.

It is believed that the iconic pillar of Mauryan Emperor Ashoka which now stands above the palace of Feroze Shah Kotla in Delhi was orig-inally erected in Topara before it was shifted by Sultan Feroze Shah Tuglaq to Delhi in the 14th century. The pillar was built here by King Ashoka who after fighting the last battle of Kalinga, surrendered the sword and embraced Buddhism. Interestingly, the pillar was the only one in India that has seven edicts – all others have only six.

A British archeol-

ogist and historian, James Prinsep, was the first one to decipher the Brahmi script on the pillar in 1837 and established the Haryana con-nect and the fact that the state once formed a hub of Buddhism where Lord Buddha along with his disciple, Ananda, delivered several sermons. The excavations in Topara Kalan, Adi Badri in district Yamunanagar and certain other places revealing remains of centuries-old many Bud-dhist stupas and monasteries in the state are delights of the Archaeology Department, Haryana.

The dense presence of Buddhism in this region is not intriguing as Buddhism was widespread and flourished during Emperor Ashoka’s reign. With a view to preserving our cultural heritage, the Chief Min-ister, Mr Manohar Lal, announced Rs 100 crore for the development of the Sarswati river and Topra Kalan village known for Emperor Ashoka’s pillar (Ashoka column) worldwide, during his public meeting held on April 11, 2015 at Radaur.

Out of this, Rs 50 crore has been earmarked for the construction of Ashoka Edicts Park where seven Ashoka Pillars, eight rock edicts and other ancient structures of Mauryan time will be constructed. The Bhumi Pujan was already performed on the site on the eve of Buddha Purnima on May 25, 2013.

A master plan has already been prepared for the development of the site in a phased manner. “There is a plan to establish here a Global Asho-

kan Edicts Pilgrimage Tourism and Heritage Circuit for the first

time in Indian sub-continent,” explains Siddharth Gauri, President of Buddhist Forum, an NGO which is engaged in preserving the legacy of Buddhism throughout the country. g


Retrieving lost cultural heritageThe Ashoka Edicts Park will be built in Topara Kalan village of Yamunanagar where seven Ashoka Pillars, eight rock edicts and other structures of Mauryan time will be constructed

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Anjana Datta

‘Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest…….It’s

about who came, and never left your side…………’

Ordinary incidents, the usual run-off-the-mill occurrences which most of the people take in their normal stride, spark off the imagination and stir the sensitive minds of the creative artists into creativity to enrich the art world. On the occasion of International Friendship Day that falls on August 2, 2015, some artists of Haryana celebrate the beautiful relationship by capturing the ex-pressions of friendship in a series of their creations.

“Friends are an important part of our life. True friends are the most precious gift of God. There is no greater happiness than having a sincere friend and no greater bliss than sharing your joys and sorrows with someone so intimate, close and dear to you,” says Ripples Pal, a well-known artist of Panchkula.

GOOD FRIENDS HARD TO FIND“Good and meaningful friends enrich our life. They are our pillars of strength. Their constant love and care protects us like a wall. Their heart-warming demeanour and gen-tle touch guide our ways. But such good friends are hard to come by. If you find one, consider yourself damn lucky,” she adds.

Her series of paintings capturing friendship on canvas span an excit-ing range of media and expression. The images that throng the canvas of Ripples have delicacy and features and come alive with the convincing deftness of style and her medium. They display fun-loving and carefree days of childhood. Her styles, medi-um and content are as varied as her each creation. Her mastery over wa-ter colours and oil and acrylic paints is unquestioned. “My work is based on recollection from my childhood,” she says.

“True friendship is a God’s gift to mankind,” remarks Vinay Malik, an artist belonging to Rohtak. “Who can forget the divine friendship of Lord Krishna with Sudama. How Lord

Telling tales of friendship with brushSome artists of Haryana paint the canvas with tales and expressions of friendship to celebrate the International Friendship Day

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Krishna turned around his child-hood friend’s fortunes when he ap-proached him for help,” he says. “To get a true friend is a rare achieve-ment these days. Blessed is one who finds one such friend,” he avers.

In his colour rich digital painting of Lord Krishna and Sudama, he has beautifully pictured their divine love and affection. Lord Krishna is wash-ing the feet of his childhood friend Sudama who visits him for help. He welcomes him with benign warmth and affection and extends him full help. The heart-warming demeanour and gentle touch with which Krishna receives his friend, is still an inspira-tion for all of us.

Similarly, play, or rather games, are at the core of the dry pastels of Anil Dhiman from Jind. His vibrant oil painting portraying Lord Krishna indulging in his playful pranks with gopis and gawals (grazers) is an enchanting piece of art. The sheer vivid image-ry of his work, a flora and fauna

culled as if from a deep inner realm, flourishing in bold and bright hues is distinctive in its rich and lively

compositions, a concept derived from Hindu mythology. His works reflect the art of that period.

Death and wisdom are constant companions of a man. In one of his works, Anil Dhiman tries to depict

that by allowing shapes to emerge on canvas from the unknowable visual syntax of the paint brush.

“God is our eternal, sincere and true friend. Some people

come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave their imprints on us. But He is the only one who is always with us guiding and helping us with his protected hands,” says Monika Sharma, a ver-satile artist from Rohtak. “A person can betray you but not He. He is my mentor, my guide, my philosopher and my best friend. Whenever I am on the verge of nervous breakdown, I turn towards Him and find solace under His feet,” she adds.

CELEBRATING FRIENDSHIPAs the International Friendship Day is round the corner, it’s time to give a gift to your dearest friend to cele-brate and cement your friendship. Monika’s works offer a vast and se-lective collection of curios, paintings and other pieces of decorative art which are a hot favourite with her clients. One also gets to rummage through a whole lot of attractive gift items –personal, impersonal, casual, imaginative, innovative and even the run of the mill—which are attrac-tively laid out in her studio.

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INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP DAYfalls on August 2

HARYANA REVIEW AUGUST 201554 POTPOURRI

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you

haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”

- Muhammad Ali

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

DO YOU

KNOW?

In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold

knowledge in high esteem. One day one fellow met the great philosopher and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?” "Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test," said Socrates. "Triple filter?" The fellow looked confused. "That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say. That's why I call it the triple filter test. The first filter is Truth. Have you made

absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man said, "actu-ally I just heard about

it and..." "All right," said Socrates. "So you don't know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend

something good?" Asked Socrates. "No, on the con-

trary...," the man replied. "So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test though, because there's one filter left: the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?" "No, not really," answered the man. "Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"

LESSONWell we can always partici-pate in loose talk to curb our boredom. But when it comes to your friends, it’s not worth it. Always avoid talking bad behind the back of your friends. g

A net pick

n It is believed that the word "wife" is derived from the Middle English word “wyfman”, meaning “wife (wyf) of the man”.

n On an average, women spend about 120 hours a year, or five days, admiring their reflection in a mirror.

n Women hiccup less than men.

n Speaking of Venus – it’s the only planet given a female goddess name, but there are other stars and moons too with female names.

n According to a study, taller women are more likely to get cancer.

n On an average, women cry between 30 and 64 times in a year, while men cry between 6 and 17 times.

n Only 2 per cent of women describe themselves as beautiful.

n Women have more taste buds than men.

A True Friend

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