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Kulu Dasehra fest concludes
Shivani is Ms Trigarth
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PWD decision hits vegetable sellers
Kumarhatti, October 18 Over the years certain points in and around of this town have been developed as small vegetable markets. Most of the traders were local unemployed youths and migrant labourers from Nepal. Generally the stretch of the highway from Parwanoo onwards used to be dotted with these shops selling vegetable and pahari chilli. However, this year the highway has very few shops. Under PWD guidelines shopkeepers have to set up shops out of the control width on both side of the highway. The PWD into keep the highway clear of encroachments has told these traders not to put up shops inside the control width of the highway. Traders have little space to put up vegetables for sale along the highway. Most of the traders have quit the scene quite early in the season. Due to poor produce of vegetable we have to buy vegetable at very high price from growers, pointed a roadside trader. Now PWD’s drive has forced them to abandon selling produce in the highway, rued one. Generally in every season each trader’s pockets over Rs 15000 in a vegetable season from June to November but this year hardly any trader was in a condition to earn profit from the sale of vegetables on the highway. |
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16,000 TB cases reported every year
Barog, October 18 The workshop was held under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) to involve private medical practitioners to curb the disease. Around 70,000 TB patients have been cured in the state till date, said Dr Neena. The TB treatment was being done free of cost. For effective treatment of the disease, health workers had been entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring the availability of medicines at all allopathic and ayurvedic health centres in the state, she said. For distributing medicines in remote areas, the participation of private practitioners, anganwari workers and NGOs had been ensured. Under the new arrangement, it was planned to provide a few private practitioners with medicines and prescribed guidelines. They would work as a link between patients and society. The medicines would be given free to the patients and the practitioners would be paid nominal charges, based on the number of patients attended to, said Dr Gupta. Among others Dr R.P. Sahani, CMO, Solan, Dr Rajinder Mehta, Medical Officer of the State TB Centre, Shimla, Dr R.K. Behal, Medical Officer, Zonal Hospital, Solan, Dr Rajdeep Shrivastava and Dr Kailash Kaushal, both WHO consultants for the RNTCP, were present on the occasion. Around 60 private practitioners and office-bearers of NGOs attended the workshop. |
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Police steps up vigil on infiltrators
Shimla, October 18 Already on high alert after the killing of two herb collectors by militants in the Tissa area of Chamba last month, the state police has stepped up vigil to ensure that militants under the garb of labourers do not sneak into Himachal. The state police yesterday got in touch with the military intelligence in Jammu and the J and K police to verify reports that activists of the Jamait-e-Islam had infiltrated into Himachal Pradesh in large numbers. The DIG (North) and SP, Chamba also contacted their Doda counterparts to verify reports about fresh infiltration into HP. The Additional Director General of Police, Mr B.S. Thind, said they were seeking information from Jammu and Kashmir in this regard but it was unlikely that infiltration by such a large number of terrorists would go unnoticed. There were reports that 50 men of the Jamat-e-Islam had sneaked into Himachal in the garb of labourers engaged by forest contractors. He said the police would verify the antecedents all Kashmiris coming to the state as labourers, wood cutters or shawl vendors. “It is already mandatory for migrant Kashmiris who come here during winters to get themselves registered at the local police station and furnish details about their native place and work,” said another police official. He maintained that the possibility of J and K terrorists sneaking into Himachal was bleak as due to small percentage of Muslim population in the state they would be easily identified and had few sympathisers. |
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Review employment by industrial units: NSUI
Shimla, October 18 Addressing a press conference here yesterday, Mr Kewal Pathania, president of the union, said the government had made it mandatory for the industrial units to recruit at least 70 per cent of the workforce from within the state. However, the condition was not being adhered to. He said only a thorough review could reveal the true picture. He said in case it was found that some units were violating the condition, the government should not hesitate in taking punitive action against these. He also urged the government to make public the deleted data regarding recommendations for appointments made by Mr P.K. Dhumal, during his tenure as the Chief Minister, retrieved by the forensic laboratory from the hard disk of his computer and take action in the matter. He hailed the employment guarantee as a big achievement of the UPA government and urged the government to give maximum possible publicity to it so that the unemployed youth could take advantage of it. He said the union would felicitate Mr Virbhadra Singh for the achievements that the state had made in the education sector. The state had been adjudged the best state in the country in education recently, he added. |
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Kulu Dasehra fest concludes
Kulu, October 18 The divine procession amid the sounds of dhol then torched the symbolic evil empire of Lanka. The sacrifices symbolised “kama”(lust), krodha (anger), lobha (greed) and moha (attachment). This brought the curtain on the week-long Kulu Dasehra festival here today. The other creatures sacrificed were a fish, a crab, a cock, a pig and a lamb, besides a lump of grass. |
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Shivani is Ms Trigarth
Kangra, October 18 The promoters, a recently-founded organisation to promote art and culture in the state, organised the competition in which 16 contestants took part. In the first round “Himachal Kay Rang” the colourfully dressed participant were applauded by the audience. Other rounds were Andaz Apna Apna and IQ Round. Miss Shivani, a resident of Nagrota Surian, was crowned by the local MLA and Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Backward Financial Corporation, Mr Surender Kaku, who was the chief guest on the occasion. Mr Rakesh Kathuria, president of The Promoters, said all participant were given citations and this would be an annual programme.
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2 women killed in
mishap
Kangra, October 18 Kangra district police chief S.P. Singh said two women were killed and 17 injured when a tractor-trailer carrying them overturned at Soura village under the Indora police station in the district last evening. He said they had gone to the Kathgarg temple for paying obeisance last evening and were returning when their tractor overturned, leaving two women dead on the spot and 17 injured. He said the dead had been identified as Sheelu Devi, a resident of Sari village, and Krishena, a resident of Sugpanch village. The bodies were handed over to the relatives of the deceased after post-mortem. The police has registered a case against the driver of the tractor under Sections 279 and 304-A of the IPC. Three more persons were injured in this town in two different road accidents during the past 24 hours when their scooters were hit by vehicles. |
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