Transport department of Haryana on Thursday announced its plan to convert the Panipat bus stand into five-storeyed complex to raise its height to the level of a flyover, which state roadways buses could also use.
Transport Minister O.P. Jain said that raising the height of bus stand building would ease the traffic congestion below the flyover and ensure smooth flow of traffic in Panipat city. Parking facilities would be provided at the ground level of the bus stand, he added.

A committee constituted by the Panjab University Vice-Chancellor recommended that the students who do not deposit the balance of the examination fees on time should be fined Rs 150 for the first year and Rs 50 should be added to the fine for every subsequent year. The recommendations were made after it was discovered that many students do not deposit the balance of fees for a long period. The report would be discussed in the Syndicate meeting to be held on September 13.

It was observed that in many cases the students after a gap of 10-15 years come to the office and pay the fee to get the results. There is no provision to fine them.

The Syndicate would also decide the issue of returning the tuition fee of the first year BDS students and other courses who have vacated their seat. A committee had been constituted in light of the standing counsel letter and ruling of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

A plot of land owned by the varsity in Industrial Area of Panipat has recently been vacated by State Bank of India. The recommendation of a committee on how to dispose off the land would be discussed in the meeting.

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Qurratulain Hyder died a fortnight ago. Her novel Mere Bhi Sanam Khane portrayed the sparks of Partition blowing up the pathways of a composite culture, leaving a yawning gap of burning dust. Some of the writings of Intizar Husain, now in India as a Sahitya Akademi guest, reflect how an ongoing cultural process was stalled in “a very unnatural way” by a few Muslims and Hindus who, with their puritan frame of mind, contributed to the tragedy of Partition.

To survey the making of Pakistan as a whole, to discover trends in the Partition movement and to seek out its meanings, Yasmin Khan is not the first to make the attempt. Why, then, another tome? Partition, she writes, deserves closer attention as one of 20th century’s darkest hour. It is a loud reminder of the dangers of colonial interventions, and the profound difficulties that dog regime change; lastly, it is “a testament to the follies of empire, which ruptures community evolution, distorts historical trajectories and forces violent state formation from societies that would otherwise have taken…unknowable…paths”.

Readable and insightful in parts, Khan’s book neither sheds much light on the protracted negotiations between the Congress, the Muslim League and the British, nor does it seek out and punish the ‘guilty’.

Expectations of Partition were mixed; some longed for Lahore in India, others hoped Punjab’s boundary would also take in Delhi.

Instead, it challenges the one-dimensional versions of the past, the “messy ambiguities” of Partition, and the uncertain meanings of Partition and Pakistan in the minds of the people living through the transfer of power. The book’s merit lies in introducing the various vocabularies of freedom in
circulation in the late 1940s.

Elsewhere, I had argued that people had no sense of the newly demarcated frontiers, and little or no knowledge of how the Mountbatten Plan or Radcliffe Award would change their destinies, and, moreover, uproot them from their familiar socio-cultural moorings. “The English have flung away their Raj like a bundle of old straw,” an angry peasant told a British official, “and we have been chopped in pieces like butcher’s meat.” This was the meaning a ‘subaltern’ attached to the Partition movement.

Did Panipat’s Muslim weavers plan to set up home in Pakistan? No, said Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, the writer-filmmaker. Expectations of what Partition would be were mixed. Some longed for Lahore’s inclusion in India; others hoped the boundary in Punjab would be drawn to include Delhi. “For millions of people like myself,” wrote Pakistani writer Shaista Ikramullah, “a Pakistan without Delhi was a body without heart.”

Khan holds out much promise in her introduction. Thereafter, her narrative comes alive. She juxtaposes ‘high politics’ and popular mobilisation deftly. The picture is irresistibly suggestive and the prose elegant. She takes a dim view of British pride and conceit, and indicts officials for their hypocrisy and failure in dealing with Partition violence. Her account does not work in a void; she has a sense of the factual.

In describing the horror stories, there is always the great danger of repetition—more trains full of dead bodies, more hacked limbs. At the same time, there is also the redeeming repetition of a strong sense of hope and optimism in these tales of despair. According to Prof Amrik Singh, the Muslims from a village in Rawalpindi district did not want to send the non-Muslims away. Nor did they want to kill them. Those who caused mayhem did not belong to his village but were brought in from far away. Many ordinary people rose above the macabre and sinister politics to help the ‘other’ at the risk of their own lives. In a nutshell, small enclaves of humanism and sanity existed in the surrounding bloodshed.

In a thoughtful epilogue, Khan raises important questions about “a deeply ambiguous, transitional position between empire and nationhood”.She asserts, “there was nothing inevitable or pre-planned about the way Partition unfolded”. Indeed, “the history of Partition has suggested that modern nation-states had to be crafted out of a chaotic…situation in which myriad voices made their claims and counter-claims”.

Saadat Hasan Manto, the enfant terrible of Urdu literature, refused to accept Partition’s bloody consequences for long, but did so in the end, without self-pity or despair. It’s time we did the same.

Indian Infrastructure & Logistics Pvt Ltd (IILPL), a 76: 24 joint venture between Singapore-based APL Shipping Line and Rajiv Chandrasekhar-promoted Hindustan Projects & Engineers Pvt Ltd, is going to start a dedicated container train to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in Navi Mumbai harbour from Samalkha in Haryana. In the first phase, the company would invest Rs 270 crore.

At present the company is operating cargo train from Loni (Delhi) to JNPT (Mumbai).

“We have received permission from ministry of railways for starting up a cargo train from Samalkha to JNPT and Mundra (Near Kandla) on the lines of CONCOR. We also have plans to set up inland container depot (ICD) facilities at Samalkha. For setting up these facilities, the process of acquisition of land is going on,” Amitabh Chaudhary, managing director, IILPL, told Business Standard.

“If everything goes according to schedule we would able to commence our services from the fourth quarter of 2008,” Chaudhary said.

The ICD project is expected to benefit the exporting community of Panipat and its surrounding areas, as in its absence they are forced to transport their goods all the way to Tughlakabad ICD (from where it is transported to other parts and ports) by road which is time consuming.

Moreover, they have to shell out extra money towards freight cost of about Rs 8,000 per container.

The company’s general manager (business development), Animesh Kumar, said, “With this facility we are going to cater to the areas of Samalkha, Panipat, Kaithal, Jind, Hissar, Rohtak, Bhiwani, Yamunanager, Baddi etc.”

“We see a potential of 3,000 containers per month after six months of the commencement of our operation,” he said, adding that with this facility an exporter can save Rs 4,000-5,000 per container. At present, the ICD at Panipat is not linked with railways.

Currently, the quantum of exports from Panipat is over Rs 2,000 crore.

Commenting on the quantum of investment, he said: “In the first phase we would invest Rs 270 crore and later on it will depend upon the quantum of business.”

About 100 km from Delhi, in the state of Haryana, is the sprawling industrial city of Panipat, a luminary of the handloom industry in India. Long before one enters the main city, billboards proclaim the presence of the weaving units. Further, up, the main road is flanked by a string of showrooms with local handloom products on display.

Panipat is famous for ‘panja’ durrie a kind of a floor covering, which is in great demand in India and abroad. Originally, it was a traditional item made by village women meant to be a part of daughter’s dowry. But slowly the product came to be recognized beyond Panipat and the growing demand for durries resulted in a burgeoning number of private and state owned weaving units within the city.

The panja durrie is only one of the floor coverings made in Panipat. There are several other kinds of floor covering like large sized handloom durries, chindi or fabric and leather scrap durries, rugs, druggets and carpets. Also made and marketed locally are blankets, khes (the sturdy item used for bed lines) and a vast variety of furnishing fabrics.
Panipat Durries: Historical Background

What happened to make this plebeian looking city such a flourishing business center? During the partition in 1947, a large number of professional weavers from Sind, Jhang and Multan, (now in Pakistan) migrated to India. As chance would have it, they were allotted land around Panipat to settle down. The weavers lost no time in setting up looms and getting down to their ancestral craft. But they were up against stiff competition from mills producing the same type of durries much faster and much cheaper. To counter the challenge, weavers of handloom durries began to experiment with color and design. Zebra stripes made way for floral geometrical patterns. Stock reds and blues moved over to let in rich Indian colors. Slowly the new kind of durrie caught on. From cotton to woolen durries, it was but a natural transition, as Panipat is one of the largest markets of raw wool in northern India. Today the Panipat-Ambala durrie-rug belt is famous all over the country and has various outlets at home and abroad

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda would honour those panchayats of the state who have done excellent work for promotion of renewable energy programmes at a state-level function to be organised at Motel Red Bishop in Panchkula on Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Diwas on August 20.

Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Chander Mohan said prizes would also be given away to those students who had excelled in various competitions, including debate, painting, essay writing and run for energy. Functions would also be organised at district level on the occasion.

Chander Mohan said the Raipur Rani Gram Panchayat in Panchkula district would be awarded first prize of Rs 3 lakh for 2006-07. Similarly, the Sanghi village of Rohtak district would be awarded second prize of Rs 2 lakh and third prize of Rs 1 lakh would be awarded to Kungar Gram Panchayat in district Bhiwani. They would also be given a shield.

Chander Mohan said at district level, those Gram Panchayats who had won first prize of Rs 50,000 each included Balana Gram Panchayat of Ambala, Mohana in Faridabad, Dhanger in Fatehabad, Naharpur in Gurgaon, Mangali Jhara in Hisar, Rajpura in Jind, Gudha in Jhajjar, Rindal in Karnal, Dherru in Kaithal, Kharindwa in Kurukshetra, Chhapera in Mewat, Khor in Narnaul, Jattal in Panipat, Bherauli in Panchkula, Karnawas in Rewari, Khidwali in Rohtak, Kilohard in Sonepat, Neja Dela Khurd in Sirsa and Sadikpur Gram Panchayat in Yamunanagar.

He said on this occasion, a state-level run for energy would also be organised for schoolchildren in Panchkula and it would be flagged off from Town Park at 8 am in which about 1,500 schoolchildren would take part. The Deputy CM said an exhibition on various renewable energy technologies and devices would also be organised at Red Bishop in which all major manufacturers of renewable energy devices would participate.

The national distributor – SES Technologies – is facing a ban in Panipat, owing to the rising discontent amongst the local channel fraternity.
“It’s been one month since the channel partners decided to ban the distributor,” said Ajay Singla, president of Panipat Computer Dealer Association (PCDA).

As per the information received by ChannelTimes, the distributor black listed a Panipat-based dealer without giving any justification. “The branch manager of the local SES Technologies office was involved in this conspiracy against the dealer,” said Singla.

The dealer was facing the problem from the distributor s side for the past one year. “As soon as we received a complaint 4 months back, we verified the problem and served a notice to the distributor asking it to take an action against the branch manager. There was no response from the company to the 4 notices in the span of 3 months,” explained Singla. Finally, on July 06, 2007, PCDA decided to ban SES Technologies.

According to the aggrieved partner, Sandeep Bansal, proprietor of The Computer People, the entire episode has affected the goodwill of his company. “This is a matter of breach of my trust in the distributor and I am grateful to the association for standing by me,” he said.

When contacted, Manish Lodhi, branch manager of SES Technologies (Panipat) said, “We’re not aware of any such ban in the city and I completely deny all the allegations against me. The association didn’t initiate any meeting to resolve the alleged issue.”

Clarifying this, Pankaj Goyal, proprietor of Pearl Infotech said, “We’ve written mails requesting immediate resolution of the matter but there has been absolutely no response from the company.”

The mail received by ChannelTimes stated “Henceforth, no member of the association will purchase any material directly or indirectly from any source, which bears any sticker of ‘Distributed by SES technologies’.”

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the country’s largest refiner of crude oil and marketer of petroleum products, is likely to set up a second paraxylene plant at one of its refineries at an investment of Rs 2,500 crore.

The Fortune 500 company – it recently improved its rank to 135 – has identified forward integration into petrochemicals as its next big business opportunity. It is already operating a Rs 5,000 crore paraxylene and purified terephthalic acid plant at its 12 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) refinery in Panipat.

The paraxylene plant uses naphtha from the refinery and converts it into purified terephthalic acid, which is used to produce polymers.

A Rs 6,300 crore naphtha cracker complex is also under construction at the refinery in Haryana.

Besides, IOC is also planning around Rs 6,000 crore petrochemical complex at its upcoming 15 mtpa refinery in Paradip, Orissa.

“We are very bullish on the petrochemical sector. That is where we see our biggest business opportunities,” said B M Bansal, business development director, IOC.

He added that the new paraxylene plant could come up at any of the company’s major refineries — Barauni, Panipat and Gujarat, among others. “We are still in the process of studying the location,” Bansal said.

IOC, like the other auto fuel marketing companies Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum, is also going slow on expanding its retail outlets in the country as a result of mounting losses from selling petrol and diesel at government-controlled prices.

IOC currently loses around Rs 90 crore a day due to selling petrol, diesel, LPG and kerosene at government-controlled prices. It is selling petrol at Rs 5.90 a litre below the desired selling price. The revenue loss, referred to as under-recoveries, for diesel is Rs 4.80 a litre.

“Our auto fuel retail business is suffering and so we are looking to intergrate our refineries with the petrochemicals business, where the demand is expected to grow as the economy grows at a good pace,” said a senior IOC official, who did not want to be named.

The major petrochemical-producing companies in India are Reliance Industries and Indian Petrochemicals, which is in the process of being merged with Reliance. The two companies together control around 70 per cent of the market.

Integrated refining and petrochem operations – with refinery output providing the feedstock for petrochem operations – ensure high margins.

Either naphtha, produced in what is called the first cut of refining or natural gas is used as feedstock and is cracked (where the long hyrdocarbon chains are broken). This is then polymerised (hydrocarbon chains are re-arranged) to produce petrochemical products.

There is a hige scope for increasing consumption of petrochem products in the country. India’s per capita consumption of polyester for example is 1.4 kg compared to 6.6 kg for China and 3.3 kg for the world.

In a fatal accident on the city’s roads Sunday night, a 20-year-old youth was killed when the scooter which he was riding was hit by a three wheeler at Dhanas.

The accident occurred when the victim Shakti Singh, who had come to the city from Panipat to stay with his friend some 15 days back was triple riding the scooter with a minor and an adult.

The trio was hit by a three wheeler number PB12 H 3527 on the road near Dhanas at around 11.45 pm. The driver escaped from the spot. While Shakti Singh was seriously injured and succumbed soon at the PGI, Deepak received minor injuries while the 15-year-old minor was still admitted at the PGI.