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Striking doctors run parallel OPDs
Govt to conduct fresh interviews for JBT
Power board engineers threaten to intensify stir
6 killed as bus falls into gorge
Five killed in road accident
Delhi girl drowned in Ravi
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Grant for Rajput trust
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Striking doctors run parallel OPDs
Dharamsala, May 22 At the same time, they threatened to boycott the emergency services in the hospital if the government went ahead with its move to rope in government doctors from outside. The medical students and resident doctors took out a procession in the main market. They also wiped windowpanes of buses and private vehicles in protest. They went to government departments to seek support for their strike. Dr Prahlad Duggal, president of the Resident Doctors Association, said students of Government Degree College and local residents had expressed solidarity with the striking medical students. The government is trying to bring in doctors from primary health centres in the periphery and if they go ahead with this, the resident doctors would also boycott the emergency services. Those who sat on fast today included Dr Vaibhav Verma, Dr Ishaan Pandit, Vikas Sharma, Varun Verma, Rohini Thakur and Priyanka Suryavanshi. The striking doctors also distributed pamphlets among general public, highlighting their charter of demands, which include constitution of an expert committee to explore all aspects of the reservation policy, issuance of a White Paper on the reservation policy, opening up of vacant reserved posts in government service to eligible candidates and an assurance that no action would be taken against the agitating students. MANDI: Pledging its support to the striking medical students in the country, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Monday stated that all of its members in the state would observe May 25 as “protest day” and would suspend OPD services in all government and private hospitals. Presiding over the meeting of its members in each district
headquarters on May 20, the IMA president, Dr K.C. Sharma, said all the OPD services in both government and private hospitals would be suspended on “protest day” in the state as mark of solidarity with the striking students in the country. “Only the seriously ill patients will be attended to on May 25,” he added. The doctors would hold a protest march in towns in each district on “protest day” against the failure of the government to resolve the impasse, the IMA secretary, Dr L.D. Vaidya, asserted. “The members will submit memorandums to the DCs in each district that day”, he added. Shimla: While the Himachal Medical Officers Association has strongly protested the deployment of 23 doctors from the periphery rural areas at Indira Gandhi Medical College, the Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) will be holding a parallel OPD to save patients from inconvenience. The parallel OPDs will be run by the RDA from tomorrow. The RDA and the students of the IGMC and the HP Government Dental College will also hold a blood donation campaign at the Rotary Hall in protest against reservation. “We have decided that instead of shedding blood on the streets we will donate it for patient welfare,” said Dr Rajesh Sood, president of the RDA. The government, as a back-up arrangement, has deputed 23 doctors to run the OPDs at the IGMC in the wake of the anti-reservation agitation by resident doctors and medical college students. “We demand immediate withdrawal of the temporary deployment orders of these 23 doctors as this will cause inconvenience to the patients in the rural areas from where they have been deputed,” said Dr Ramesh Chauhan, general secretary of the Shimla branch of the Himachal Medical Officers Association. Meanwhile, the Himachal Dental Officers Association has extended full support to the ongoing agitation by doctors and medical students. They will also join the call for strike by the HMOA on May 25. The RDA has been able to get the support of over two dozen organizations against reservation for OBCs. Nurpur: The Himachal Pradesh Government Teachers Union, Kangra district unit, has urged the Chief Minister, Mr Virbhadra Singh, to ensure promotion of teachers in the new elementary education system. “The government should create a post of headmaster with drawing and disbursing powers in every elementary school and inspecting officers at cluster, block and sub divisional levels. The trained graduate, post-graduate and classical cum vernacular teachers should be promoted as lecturers by giving one time relaxation in the existing rules. “The teachers union will launch a stir if the government implements new system
arbitrarily without caring for the interests of the teaching community,” Union leader Onkar
Rana warned.
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Govt to conduct fresh interviews for JBT
Shimla, May 22 The selection of the candidates has been hanging fire since 2002 during which tests were scrapped more than once. The 1,691 candidates finally selected on the basis of the test conducted in 2004 could not be admitted as the unsuccessful candidates moved the court, alleging irregularities in interviews. Last week the government decided to scrap the interviews and decided to hold fresh interviews in accordance with the undertaking given by it to the court. The total marks for judging the candidates will be 90, of which 75 will be for the written test already conducted. Further, out of the 15 marks for the interview, weightage will be given for the performance in the plus two examination up to a maximum of five marks. Marks will be awarded by converting 5 per cent of the total percentage of marks obtained in the examination. Similarly, five marks have been set apart for performance in extracurricular activities like sports, cultural events and debates. As such only five marks will be left at the discretion of the interview panel, out of which a maximum of two marks will be awarded for knowledge of customs of Himachal Pradesh and three marks for the overall personality and mental aptitude of the candidate. In all about 8,500 candidates, who have qualified the written test, will be called for interview. The interview panel for each district will be headed by the Deputy Commissioner and have the Deputy Director of Elementary Education and Principal of the District Institute of Education and Training as members. The interviews held earlier were conducted by committees headed by Subdivisional Magistrates. The selection of candidates and their subsequent appointment will be subject to the decision on the special leave petition in this regard pending before the Supreme Court.
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Power board engineers threaten to intensify stir
Dalhousie, May 22 The association has warned to intensify their stir if their grievances were not resolved within a month. In a statement released here today, Er S.K. Chadda and Er D.S. Dhatwalia, state unit president and general secretary of the association, respectively, alleged that a sense of autocracy was prevailing in the power board, which had put them in an embarrassing situation with regard to the day-to-day functioning. Tey said their pending demands were being overlooked by the management and even the directives of the state Chief Minister and Power Minister were being bypassed. They further said hundreds of posts of junior engineer were lying vacant which have not been filled so far. The demand for rationalisation of promotion quota for the post of assistant engineer and filling of their share of cadre posts of executive engineers had been in the cold storage for the past three years, these leaders pointed out. These leaders blamed the board management for promoting unqualified and incapable persons to the posts of engineer. Moreover, the posts of assistant engineer were being abolished, they disclosed. They added that while the management was reimbursing telephone bills of all categories of engineers, junior engineers who spend thousands of rupees on department duties were not getting reimbursements.
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6 killed as bus falls into gorge
Nahan, May 22 When contacted Mr D. K. Yadav, SP, Sirmour, told this correspondent late this evening that accident took place when the driver of the bus parked it near the bridge on the Solan-Rajgarh road and got down to take some article from a shop. A P.W.D. daily-wage worker, Khewat Bahadur who was reportedly standing nearby, seat on the driver’s seat and tried to drive it. As soon as he started the bus, the vehicle went out of his control and fell into the gorge. The police has registered a case under Section 304, IPC against Khewat Bahadur, who has been admitted to a hospital. The injured were rushed to Rajgarh and Solan district/Hospitals by the police with the help of local people. As per official sources, names of those killed are Hirmo Devi, Dhanbir Singh Uma Rani, Kaushalya Devi and Ganga Singh.
— OC
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Five killed in road accident
Bilaspur, May 22 The vehicle was carrying 27 labourers from Ambala to Sundernagar when the mishap occurred, the police said. Three of the labourers died on the spot, while the two others succumbed to their injuries on the way to hospital. The dead were yet to be identified.
— UNI
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Delhi girl drowned in Ravi
Chamba, May 22 According to sources, the body of the deceased was recovered late last evening. The deceased, identified as Manshi Shah, was studying in plus two class in Saurav Mal Jain Public Senior Secondary School, Janakpuri in Delhi, and had come on an educational tour along with a group of 50 students. The parents of the deceased had been informed about the incident by the local administration.
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Grant for Rajput trust
Kangra, May 22 He also released souvenir and a novel “Laanchhan” authored by the president, Rajput Sabha, Col (retd.) S.C. Parmar. The Chief
Minister also gave merit scholarships to the students for their academic achievements and financial help to widows on behalf of the sabha.
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