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Errant petrol stations to face legal action
Executive engineer in vigilance net
Pharmacists hold protest, demand employment
Srinagar hospital total failure: Dal
Develop Hemkund Sahib as fifth dham: Sabha
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4 killed in accident
The site where the motorcycle fell on the river bed near Ranipur Jhal bridge. A Tribune photograph
Truant students puzzle authorities
Jobless NTT teachers threaten immolation on Feb 19
141-run victory for Oil India
7 Doon boys in national camp
The students of Maharana Pratap Sports College who have been selected for national camp. A Tribune photograph
U’khand Police, AB Club in semis
Nikay karmcharis continue stir
Long jump: Naval Kishore clinches gold
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Errant petrol stations to face legal action
Dehradun, February 17 While stating that the Food and Civil Supplies Department had received reports that some petrol pumps tamper with their meters and mix kerosene in petrol and diesel, Bhatt said that instead of imposing a fine, now
the department would initiate legal proceedings against them. Speaking to mediapersons after presiding over the meeting of officials of the Food and Civil Supplies Department, Bhatt said that officials of the weights and measurements branch of the department have been asked to carry out regular and random checks at all petrol stations in the state. A similar exercise will be carried to check the under-measurement in LPG cylinders as well. “In case, any erring fuel station manages to evade action on account of laxity of the department official, strict action will be taken against the official,” he revealed. Bhatt said that officials have been instructed to submit a compliance report within a week’s time. The minister also said that their department has decided to issue “smart cards” in place of ration cards. “It has come to our knowledge that many ration card holders had given wrong information regarding the number of dependents in the family to the department. Hence, in order to make the system more transparent and fool-proof, we will be issuing smart cards”, he told mediapersons. The minister further said that smart cards would be made after thoroughly inquiring about the information given by the applicant. “The smart card will also have fingerprints of the card holder and the whole system would be computerised. “The department will be able to properly tab the number of units of sugar, kerosene oil and wheat being taken by the people who are BPL (below poverty line) and APL (above poverty line),”
he added. Bhatt, however, did not give any exact timeframe, within which, the smart cards would be introduced. “It may take an year to complete the process”, he said, while adding that if required, the proposal would also be tabled in the Cabinet meeting in order to get the approval. |
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Executive engineer in vigilance net
Dehradun, February 17 According to the police, the accused had amassed property worth nearly Rs 1.5 crore including cash. According to information, the vigilance team led by circle officer VK Sharma raided the house of executive engineer, irrigation department, Chamoli, Virender Prasad, at the Vijay Park Extension, and recovered FD papers worth Rs 12 lakh, papers of a petrol pump owned by his wife and papers of several land plots owned by him in Dehradun and Udham Singh Nagar. SP Vigilance VK Murugeshan said the raid was conducted in connection with the Prevention of Corruption Act after a search warrant was obtained from the court on Friday. "Investigation was on against the accused from the past several months following registration of an FIR based on a secret complaint," said Murugeshan. The case was later transferred to the vigilance department by the state government. "The accused had amassed property worth Rs 1.5 crore. Besides a house in Dehradun, Prasad also had an acre-land plot and a petrol pump in his wife's name in Udham Singh Nagar as well as other plots in Dehradun," he added. "We have apprised the registrar dealing with property not to entertain any transfer cases owned by Prasad and his wife," said Murugeshan. Meanwhile, Prasad is on his way to Dehradun and would be interrogated once he reaches here. "We will interrogate him on the issue and then proceed further," said the SP Vigilance. |
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Pharmacists hold protest, demand employment
Dehradun, February 17 The group warned the BJP government that if their demands were not met they would not vote for the party during the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Rahul Lakhera, president of the Association, said the unemployed pharmacists have been sitting on dharna outside the Vidhan Sabha, since January 23 last year. “The previous Congress government had passed a order regarding appointment of pharmacists on 1,099 posts, but during that period the model code of conduct was imposed due to elections. Therefore, a final decision could not be taken. But despite our repeated requests the BJP government has not taken up the matter yet,” said Lakhera. Another member of the group Sanjay Chauhan informed that there are 1,765 health sub-centres and 453 satellite sub-centres, but so far pharmacists have been appointed only at 530 sub-centres. No appointments have been made at the 1,226 sub-centres. And for the past 15 years, only 539 pharmacists have been appointed. |
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Srinagar hospital total failure: Dal
Dehradun, February 17 Terming the institution as a total failure, members of the coalition partner of the government, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD), today alleged that negligence of its doctors was a cause of serious concern but the government was not paying any attention to the hardships being faced by people due to this. The patients are referred to other hospital even for minor problems. However, doctors termed the allegations as politically motivated. After a visit to the hospital on Monday, UKD advisor Latafat Hussain and former executive president of its Youth Wing Jai Prakash Upadhaya cited the example of two youths who met with an accident on February 14 in front of the hospital. He alleged that no doctor was present on duty. Later, both were referred to Dehradun hospitals on the grounds that ECG, Ultrasound and MRI facilities were not available at the hospital. The Dal leaders alleged that due to lack of timely treatment, one of the victims, Amit Nautiyal, slipped into coma. Both claimed that as per the doctors attending to him at the Himalayan Institute, Jolly Grant, had he been brought to the hospital in time his condition would not have worsened. The leaders alleged that the doctors indulged in pressure tactics whenever such cases came to light. In the case of Nautiyal, the doctors lodged a complaint against his family members. They threatened to observe strike if the police did not arrest them. In the past also, the doctors went on strike when an advocate Krishan Mani Bangwal allegedly died due to lack of proper treatment at the hospital. The leaders alleged that since its establishment last year, the hospital has allegedly failed to provide good medical facilities to the people of this hilly region. They demanded that immediate steps should be taken to improve working of the hospital. |
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Develop Hemkund Sahib as fifth dham: Sabha
Dehradun, February 17 Its founder Ram Murti Vir Ji and newly elected state president Subhash Kohli said they have written to the Chief Minister BC Khanduri and Tourism Minister Prakash Pant in this regard. The Sabha had passed resolution on both the issues recently. The state is home to famous Hindu shrines of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Yumnotri and Gangotri known as ‘char dham’. They demanded that the development of HemkundSahib should be done in a manner that it gets the status of fifth Dham. Lakhs of pilgrims from Punjab and other parts of the world visit the state every year to pay obeisance here. |
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4 killed in accident
Haridwar, February 17 Akram, Saddam and Sarfaraz were going to drop Naushad at the railway station as he was going to Kotdwar to participate in the police recruitment. The passersby saw the bodies in the morning and informed the police. Some people doubted a false play but considering the accident site and circumstances police has prima facie denied of any conspiracy. The police have sent the bodies for postmortem. MLA Mohammed Taslim of Lal Dang and Mohammed Shahzad of Bahadrabad also reached the spot and consoled the victim’s family. SSP Sanjay Gunjiyal said the accident happened as four of them were riding on a single motorcycle. He urged the two-wheeler drivers to wear helmets for their own safety. |
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Truant students puzzle authorities
Mussoorie, February 17 Classes at the MPG college resumed after vacations last week but the turnout of students is very low. “Only 4-5 students come to attend classes,” said a teacher in anonymity. College authorities are concerned with the attendance record of the students as exams are approaching. “We wont be able to complete the syllabus unless students come to college,” said Dr RS Shukla, principal of the college. |
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Jobless NTT teachers threaten immolation on Feb 19
Dehradun, February 17 The organisation office-bearers have also announced that if decision regarding their demands was not taken during the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the organisation will resort to a mass self immolation outside the BJP headquarters on February 19. Earlier in December 2008, president and secretary of the organisation Yogita Joshi and Pushpa Rathore, respectively, had attempted to commit suicide outside the state legislative Assembly. Notably, it has been 458 days since the unemployed NTT teachers are protesting outside the state legislative Assembly. Raising slogans against the Khanduri government, the teachers also blocked traffic at the Clock Tower. The protesting teachers are demanding that the government should issue orders for recruiting the unemployed NTT teachers without any delay. Speaking to The Tribune, Yogita Joshi said in 2003 the state government started centres for providing NTT. “We were trained to teach pre-primary and class one to three. But when the training completed, the government refused to employ us, while stating that the government schools do not have pre-primary. We were asked to find employment in other states”, she rued. While disclosing that out of 250 unemployed NTT teachers, 90 per cent are graduates, the protesting teachers further said since they got training for teaching class one to three, why the government was not recruiting them for teaching these particular classes. “What is more shocking is the fact that the Khanduri government had recruited around 10 NTT teachers, who got training from Delhi and Allahabad,” alleged Renu Bisht, a protestor. Meanwhile, teachers of the government schools have strongly flayed the Khanduri government for not paying them salaries in accordance with the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission. While demanding pay parity with that of the Central government teachers, the government schoolteachers have threatened to go on indefinite strike from February 18. The Joint Employees Teachers Coordination Committee, Uttarakhand, Arun Pandey said the government had accepted the demand of pay parity to the government schoolteachers on the pattern of the Central government but the decision was yet to be implemented. |
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141-run victory for Oil India
Dehradun, February 17 It was a well-stuck 123 runs for Oil India, Saurav Bhagawati and another century by B Dass, who made 111 runs, that helped Oil India post a mammoth total of 279 runs in their allotted 40 overs. For CPCL, PK Kathir Karthik picked up two wickets. In reply, CPCL was all-out for 138 runs. G Krishanmurthy made 41 runs, D Siva Subramanium made 32 runs and K Mohan contributed 21 runs. For Oil India, Saurav Bhagwat and Rama Barman took two wickets each. |
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7 Doon boys in national camp
Dehradun, February 17 The selected boys are the students of the Maharan Partap Sports College here. The selections have been made keeping in view their performance at the SGFI football tourney. Last year, five students were selected for the national camp. These footballers include Bablu Kumar, Anand Mamgain, Rahul Negi, Shashank Rawat, Anuj Rawat, Raja Rawat and Gaurav Bhandari. They will be a part of the pool of 40 to 50 playersfrom which u-14 national team would be selected for the ASIAN School Games. Last year, ASIAN School Games were held at Bangkok and two footballers from the sports college Dehradun had then represented the national team. The ASIAN School Games holds much significance as teams from China, Korea, Japan and Middle East are regular participant to the games, particularly in football. India team had once occupied a third place in the games way back in the 1988. Thereafter, it had proved to be an uphill task for the team to get a medal. The u-14 team that won the SGFI National Football tournament had eight players from Maharana Pratap Sports College, Dehradun. The team was led by Shashank Rawat, who was the team captain and Raja Rawat, who too belonged to the Sports College, were awarded with the Best Players award for their outstanding performance in the defence line. Whereas, in the u-13 category Rohit Negi and Nitin, also from Sport College, have received a call from the selectors to join the camp. |
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U’khand Police, AB Club in semis
Dehradun, February 17 In the first quarterfinal between DAV Club and Forest Research Institute, DAV Club outshone FRI 34-16. Vikrant was the highest scorer for DAV Club contributing as many as 15 points to the team score. In the quarterfinal between Saharanpur and Dehradun Club, Saharanpur won the match by 14 points. The scoreline read 31-17 in favour of Saharanpur. Earlier in the league matches, AB Club outclassed DAV Club (66-56). Shailender of AB Club was the top scorer with 23 points. In the second match, Uttarakhand Police registered a narrow four-point win over Saharanpur. The final score read 48-44. The third match was between Dehradun Club and Wonder Boys team. Dehradun Club team won
the match by a comfortable margin of 11 points. The final score was 26-15. In the match between FRI team and Selaqui Club, Selaqui beat FRI by one point (28-27). |
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Nikay karmcharis continue stir
Dehradun, February 17 After previous day’s boycott of their works, mahasangh members from the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, the Mussoorie Dehra Development Authority, the Peyjal Nigam and the district panchayats gathered at Gandhi Park and held a protest meeting. Ramesh Binjola of Jal Santhan said the state government had taken them for granted and were depriving them of their genuine sixth commission Another speaker Vinod Bhatt threatened to stage a massive agitation if the government fails to address their concerns. The protesters on the occasion also rented the air with anti-state government slogans. “We will continue with our protest till our demand of extending Sixth Pay Commission benefits is accepted,” said CV Gairola. |
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Long jump: Naval Kishore clinches gold
Dehradun, February 17 In the girls category, Nisha jumped 3.25 mts and won gold, E Kaur jumped 3.25 mts and get silver and Praveen jumped 3.23 mts and got bronze. In 800m race for boys, Virendra Samant clocked 2.24 sec to win gold, Bhupendra won silver and Rajeev had to satisfy with bronze. In javelin throw for boys, Shekhar’s throw of 43.10m helped him win gold, silver medal was won by Rahul Rawat who threw 42.65m and Vivek won bronze with 40.95m throw. In the girls category, Teresa won the gold with a throw of 18.82m, Shashi Rawat won silver, she threw 15.70m and Ankit got bronze with a throw of 15.30m. In shot-put event for girls Ankit won gold, silver was bagged by Neeraj Pawar and Jyoti got the bronze. |
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