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June 30, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Cong to enrol 5 cr more members Industrial training must for ITI students Prof Nirjhar is NIT Chairman CM for optional use of funds Dhumal’s statement
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Cong candidate is Block Samiti chief Budget anti-people, says Rana BSNL functioning criticised
Maintenance charges’ hike resented Minjar fair from July 27 Create awareness on eye care,
teachers told Truck operators hold dharna Arya Samaj to fight social evils
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Cong to enrol 5 cr more members Shimla, June 29 Mr Motilal Vora, Treasurer of the All-India Congress Committee, who was here to review the membership drive, told newsman here that the drive would close on December 31 and the new party president would be chosen after this. During the last organisational poll, only 3.5 crore members could be enrolled because of assembly elections in Kerala, West Bengal, Assam and some other states. He said fund raising was related to the membership drive as each active member was required to contribute Rs 100 every year to the party fund. The PCC delegates would give Rs 300 each, legislators and chairpersons of boards and corporations their month’s salaries, and the AICC members Rs 600 each. Besides, each MP was required to make “five friends of Congress”, each of whom would contribute Rs 10,000 to the party fund. For the next Lok Sabha elections, the Congress might tie-up with like-minded parties. The political environment was in favour of the party, as the people were disillusioned with the performance of the NDA government. He said the Vajpayee regime had failed to fulfil the promise of creating 1 crore jobs and building 20 lakh houses every year. The Congress had formed government in 15 states and been sharing power in two states. There was a considerable swing in favour of the party in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu, where the party was not in power. The ‘Chintan Manthan Shivir’ of the party to be held here from July 7 to 9, he said, would be, in effect Panchmarhi-II, where important decision regarding the party’s election strategy in five states would be taken. Five groups had been formed to draft the resolutions for the session, which would take care of political , economic and foreign affairs. |
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Industrial training must for ITI students Solan, June 29 Speaking on the occasion of the annual prize distribution function of the local ITI said there was an urgent need to strengthen liaison between the ITIs and the industry in the state as this alone could provide jobs to the ITI
passouts. Enlisting the efforts of his department in this direction, he said big companies like
LG, Hero Honda, etc. were coming forward to recruit ITI students. In order to revamp the
ITIs’ obsolete courses like Hindi stenography, surveyorcourse, whose utility had depleted over the years, had been discontinued from some
ITIs. Talking about the new courses introduced in the ITI’s he said a new semi self-finance scheme had been started, whereby the best technical education in electronics, motor mechanics and other disciplines would be made available to students at a minimal fee of Rs 10,000. With a view to making the syllabi need based a committee comprising three representative from Nalagarh industry and two engineers from the Technical Education Department had been set up, which would recommend changes in the present curriculum. The report, to be submitted within three months, would be sent to the national committee on vocational education for necessary permission, he said. Mr Verma later gave away prizes to the students. |
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Prof Nirjhar is NIT Chairman Hamirpur, June 29 He was the Member-Secretary of the AICTE and retired three months ago. He had also served as Principal of various engineering colleges in the country. Prof Nirjhar may take a final decision about the appointment of a regular Director of the institution after holding meetings with various sections of the staff of the institution. Dr S.K. Bhowmick is the acting Director of the institution. The newly Chairman is on three-day tour of the institution and will meet the Press on Monday evening. Prof Nirjhar will submit his report to the Union HRD Minister, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, with whose blessings he had been made Chairman of the institution. Earlier Chairman of the board, Mr L.M. Thapar resigned recently. He had never visited the NIT, Hamirpur after his taking over the assignment as the Chairman of the NIT, Hamirpur. Prof Nirjhar had talks with the acting Director, Registrar and other senior faculty members in the conference room of the NIT this afternoon. |
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CM for optional use of funds Shimla, June 29 He was addressing the first state-level conference of H.P. state SAS officers here. The Chief Minister said the proper utilization of funds earmarked for particular works and schemes should be ensured. He said this would also help in planned development of the state besides, observing financial propriety. He also stressed for bringing more professionalism in the services to cope with the situation with the fast development that were taking place. The Chief Minister said the government was committed to speedy development of the state and providing the people transparent, efficient and responsive administration. Mr P.L. Suvrathan, Principal secretary, finance, speaking on the occasion, said that SAS services were eyes and ears of the Finance Department. He stressed to perfect accountability and maintaining standards of professionalism. |
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Dhumal’s statement
ridiculed Shimla, June 29 Mr Singhi Ram said here today that Mr Dhumal had so far not reconciled to his party’s humiliating defeat in the Assembly elections. He said the shifting of the capital was not a child’s play as it required crores of rupees which the fund-starved government did not have. He created much hype about the creation of new districts on the eve of elections knowing full well that it was not possible to carve out more districts due to the poor financial health of the state, the minister added. |
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Cong candidate is Block Samiti chief Palampur, June 29 Brij Behari Lal Butail, Himachal Revenue Minister, was also present on the occasion. Later speaking to newsmen Mr Butail said that BJP-led BDC had failed to come up to the expectations of the people of the area, therefore all BJP office-bearers had been removed by the members and they had expressed full faith in the leadership of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh. Earlier the Bhawarna Block Samiti was under the control of the BJP. But soon after the Assembly elections the Congress party had dislodged the BJP president. |
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Budget
anti-people, says Rana Hamirpur, June 29 In a statement here today, he said that the state government had already increased bus fare. The hike in sales tax on diesel and chemical fertilizers would hit poor people, as prices of various essential commodities would increase. Mr Rana announced that the BJP would show black flags to Mr Vir Bhadra Singh during his visit to lower hill areas of the state. Processions would be organised against the Chief Minister during the tour. The BJP spokesman blasted the state government for lathi charge on party workers and demanded a high level probe into the incident by a High court judge. He supported the demand of the
Prem Kumar Dhumal for shifting of state capital from Shimla to lower hill areas of state
especially Jahoo. |
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BSNL functioning criticised Chamba, June 29 The Secretary of the Council, Mr Gurmukh Singh said that no telegram was being received by this telegraph office on the plea that telegram system was damaged and the telegram had to be sent by post. If the telegram is sent by post then the very purpose of sending telegram was defeated because the telegrams take few days to reach destinations. Reiterating its demand of regulating the vehicular traffic at Sultanpur adopting one-way traffic route between Sultanpur and Baloo near helipad, the Council requested the Deputy Commissioner to permit the use of bye-pass road via Fisheries Complex. Because the road below helipad is very narrow and two vehicles coming from opposite direction could not cross. Many accidents have occurred at this particular place resulting in vehicles falling into the river Ravi and deaths of the occupants. |
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Maintenance charges’ hike resented Parwanoo, June 29 Members of the Resident Welfare Association of this sector, in a letter written to the Secretary-cum-Chief Engineer,
H.P. Housing Board, Shimla, have expressed concern over the notices issued by the local office of the board about the steep enhancement of the maintenance charges. The association said the facilities provided by the board like water supply, drainage, streetlights and roads were also being enjoyed by a number of private-owned houses in this sector, but the board was not charging any maintenance charges from them. |
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Minjar fair from July 27 Chamba, June 29 Mr Chowdhary said this year the major thrust would be to attract tourists to the resort by arranging musical concerts during cultural nights at the carnival. He said renowned singers were likely to be invited to perform at the fair. Besides, with a view to preserving the cultural heritage of this alpine region, importance would also be given to the folk artistes from different parts of Himachal Pradesh. |
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Create awareness on eye care,
teachers told Dharamsala, June 29 Dr Rathore urged science teachers to bring school students with eye ailments to specialists to ensure that students got better eye
care. The workshop was attended by 43 science teachers. The Deputy Director, Education, Mr R. D. Sharma, assured full support to the health authorities in this work. The additional Deputy Commissioner of Kangra, Dr Amandeep Garg, urged the teachers to make students and parents more aware of eye ailments. |
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Truck operators hold dharna Bilaspur, June 29 He demanded that the ex-servicemen truck operators of the state should be allocated loading quota in the cement factory at Darlaghat also. However, such ex-servicemen should not be allowed to take the double benefit of loading quotas in their district as well as in cement factories here at the cost of civil and ex-servicemen truck operators of Bilaspur and Solan. |
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Arya Samaj to fight social evils Chamba, June 29 In his keynote address Swami Sumedhananda said that the present politics of communalism was leading the country to disintegration and diverting the attention of the public from the basic issues and diverting people’s energies to disputes and controversies on temple and mosque. Swami Agnivesh, Chairman of the Anti-Slavery Trust of the United Nations, speaking on this occasion supported the resolution of organising the youths of the country on one platform for rooting out political and social ills, eating into moral values of the nation. This would infuse national character into youths and boost their courage for the purpose of the national cause, Swami Agnivesh added. |
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2 jawans cremated with honours Dharamsala, June 29 Two Army jawans from Kangra lost their lives in the attack, the other being Ajay Jamwal from Masot village under Dehra Subdivision. Swaroop Lal was 24 while Ajay Jamwal was 23. |
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Heavy rain in Kangra district Palampur, June 29 |
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Rain brings relief Hamirpur, June 29 Farmers of the district welcomed the showers as these would be beneficial for the sowing of kharif crops. Officials of the Forest Department and the Irrigation-cum-Public Health Department also heaved a sigh of relief from today’s rains. They are optimistic that the rains would help solve the water crisis and control forest fires. |
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