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Panchayats may get back mining rights MLA for action
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ministers Medicine for curing diabetes soon Milk bodies ‘ushering in prosperity’ Lovers consume poison, boy dies |
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Panchayats may get back mining rights Dharamsala, February 15 The Chief Minister, while addressing a public meeting at Akhanjer Mahadev, near Khaniyara, near here, said that keeping in view the demand placed before him by the local pradhans the government would consider the matter seriously so that the mining rights can once again be given to the panchayats. “No doubt the livelihood of thousands of people is dependent on slate quarrying but at the same time we must not undertake unscientific extraction which can lead to ecological imbalance,” he stated. Mr Dhumal said natural calamities were a phenomenon “over which we had no control but at times we too contributed to a disaster by upsetting the natural cycle of things”. He said in view of the Dharamsala area falling in the high seismic risk zone there was an urgent need to take all precautionary measures to limit the damage to the minimum and educate the people to handle such a situation. The local MLA and the Transport Minister, Mr Kishan Kapoor, in his speech had requested the Chief Minister to restore mining rights to the panchayats. It is only a few months back that the Union Ministry for Forests and Environment had cleared the case for undertaking slate quarrying in 25 hectares of area in Khaniyara. With a few formalities yet to be completed, mining work has still not been resumed. The Chief Minister said it was the top priority of his government to link all villages in the state by road during the next three years. “Himachal is
likely to benefit a lot from the Rs 90 crore Prime Minister’s Gramin Sadak Yojna, under which special relaxation had been given to the hill states by reducing the population to a village where roads are to be constructed from 1000 to 250 persons,” he informed. Mr Dhumal said as compared to the Congress regime the pace of
development in the BJP rule had been accelerated and the construction of roads, drainage systems and other facilities were being undertaken on a war footing. He said since McLeodganj, headquarters of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, had become an international destination all efforts would be made to spruce it up with all basic facilities for the convenience of the tourists as well as the locals. Mr Dhumal said that Rs 10 crore had already been sanctioned by the Eleventh Finance Commission for the Dharamsala sewage scheme and Rs 10 crore for the Jwalamukhi sewage scheme. He laid the foundation stone of McLeodganj bus stand which will be constructed at a cost of Rs 3.75 crore. He also laid the foundation stone of a bridge over the Manooni khud to be constructed at a cost of Rs 29 crore. He also inaugurated the District Ayurveda Hospital building constructed at a cost of Rs 57 lakh. The Chief Minister said a parallel road from Dharamsala to Jia had been cleared by NABARD for which Rs 3.50 crore would be spent. Another road from the Dharamsala-Khaniyara slate godown had also been given the nod by NABARD for Rs 1.60 crore. |
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MLA for action
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ministers Shimla, February 15 In a statement here today, Mrs Asha Kumari said the ruling BJP and the Chief Minister, Mr Prem Kumar Dhumal, should not try to hush up the case. She alleged certain ministers were trying to mislead the people on the issue and shielding those named in the police report. The kidnapped women leaders had given an affidavit naming those involved in their abduction, she added. |
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Medicine for curing diabetes soon Shimla, February 15 Stating this here yesterday, Dr Anirudh Verma, secretary, Research Society of Homeopathy, said scientists at the institute had identified alloxan, a chemical, which helps regenerate the dead insulin-producing cells in the body. He said the level of sugar in blood was controlled by insulin, which was produced by islets of langerhans. However, when these cells got damaged or became inactive, requisite quantity of insulin was not produced, which in turn resulted in higher level of sugar in blood. Alloxan revives the islets of langerhans, which gradually raise the level of insulin. The medicine based on alloxan would be available shortly. Already trials were going on and it had been found quite effective, according to Dr Verma, who is here in connection with the two-day national conference on success and failures of homoeopathy to be held here on February 17 and 18. |
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Milk bodies ‘ushering in prosperity’ Mandi, February 15 Talking to mediapersons, he said in the past 10 months these societies procured 73.81 litres of milk from farmers and paid them Rs 6.81 crore. The milk producers were being paid Rs 70 lakh monthly and the amount was expected to touch Rs 80 lakh, he said. He said while revolution got a fillip in the state when the Milk Federation was set up in 1980 as the National Dairy Development Board had made it mandatory to constitute such a body in the wake of Operation Flood II. He said with the constitution of the village milk societies, the middlemen, who had been exploiting milk producers, were driven out. He said 10 bulk coolers were being installed on the Mandi Gohar route under centrally sponsored Integrated Dairy Development Project. |
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Lovers consume poison, boy dies Solan, February 15 Supinder Singh, along with his girlfriend Gurpreet Kaur, had come to Nalagarh on Monday and registered at a hotel there on the eve of the Valentine’s Day. DSP Nalagarh Mohinder Singh said as per the suicide note recovered from the hotel room, both were lovers and had decided to end their lives together following the refusal of Supinder’s parents to let them get married. Ms Gurpreet Kaur is a married woman who had been living in her parent’s house at Chamkaur Sahib after being separated from her husband. The lovers consumed poison around midnight yesterday. A security guard of the hotel first knocked on the door of the room but upon getting no response, he broke it open. The guard immediately informed the hotel owner, who in turn informed the police. Both were first rushed to the Civil Hospital, Nalagarh, from where they were referred to the PGI, Chandigarh. Supinder died on way to the PGI while the condition of Gurpreet Kaur was described as serious. |
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Kisan sabha begins stir Nurpur, February 15 Twentyfive members of the KVS yesterday started indefinite dharna in front of the SDM’s office. Earlier, on February 10 the KVS had submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister. |
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Litterateur dead Kulu, February 15 Mr Maheshwar Singh, MP, said: “He was an asset to the culture of this valley”. Mr Karan Singh, Minister of State for Primary Education, said: “Kulu has lost a rich literary saint.” |
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