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State Power Crisis
Ill-treatment of yoga professionals flayed
No grouse with CM, says Bhagat
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Pancheshwer dam project likely to start in 5 years
U’khand Kranti Dal submits memorandum to Nishank
Ministerial staff continue stir
CPM remembers Basu’s ideology
Three robbers arrested
NREGA to provide jobs to 19,632
BJP leaders felicitated
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Cong raises the ante
Tribune News Service
Dehradun, January 24 Dhasmana alleged that this was the first time that such power crunch had been seen in the state in the past nine years since the state was founded. He said the urban areas were facing power cuts of five to eight hours, while in rural areas power cuts of eight to 14 hours were being imposed upon. This was for the first time that undeclared power cuts of three to five hours were witnessed. Further criticising the state government Dhasmana added that though government had a lot many officers in the Energy Corporation and Water Electricity Corporation, but had barred the recruitment of employees. He also alleged that the government in order to pave way for the privatisation of energy sector had deliberately created the problem of electricity. Seeing the situation of Uttarakhand on the electricity front, to call it Energy State had become a matter of joke in the entire country, he said. Addressing the protesters, organiser of the dharna Sandeep Ramola said due to the power cuts the working class was the most affected. Owing to the shortage of electricity, no industry could be run and it had become difficult for the working class to make two ends meet.
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Ill-treatment of yoga professionals flayed
Nainital, January 24 A large number of students and activists of the Youth Congress burnt the effigy of Bisht at Tallital to express their resentment over the treatment meted out to young yoga professionals at Haldwani. Yesterday, a contingent of yoga professionals, who have been protesting to the press the government to fulfil their demands over the past few days, went to a private college where Bisht was attending a programme of the ABVP. They wanted to hand over a memorandum of their demands to Bisht. However, they were stopped by the ABVP activists at the entrance of the pandal and told that they could meet the minister once the programme was over. When the former tried to force their way into the pandal, the ABVP activists thrashed them after a heated exchange of words. Seeing the situation becoming precarious, the police stepped in and managed to throw the agitators out by using force. The yoga professionals have been airing their demands for jobs in educational institutes. They have been questioning the reluctance on the part of the government to recruit them despite their having completed formal education in yoga training. They have also questioned the tall claims made by the government with regards to promoting yoga as a profession in the state and also as an alternative to the sex education, to which the BJP and other Hindutva organisations are opposed. The protesters at Nainital also asked if the government was not in a mood to give them jobs, why were they cheated and fleeced into pursuing courses in yoga? They have threatened to launch a statewide agitation against the government. |
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No grouse with CM, says Bhagat
Pitthoragarh, January 24 “I have been minister since 1993 in Uttar Pradesh and continuously working as minister even after the Uttarakhand state was created, except this brief period during the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule,” said Bhagat. He was in Pitthoragarh on a brief visit on Saturday after taking oath as a cabinet minister. He was inducted into the Uttarakhand cabinet on Friday supposedly in the place vacated by
Bishan Singh Chuphal who became the state party chief. Bhagat said the opposition parties in the state had created a wrong impression that the BJP government was facing financial crises and needed to be fought by the government as well as the BJP cadres. “When the state government is creating new milestones of development, it is being blamed for not having sufficient finances. There are some new ideas with me to speed up the development of the state. I will work on them soon,”
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Spurred by Veeru’s courage, ad hoc teachers gherao House
Dehradun, January 24 The protesters had been protesting for more than 718 days demanding for the conversion of all ad hoc teachers under the Shiksha Acharya Scheme into the Shiksha Mitra Scheme. The protesters were furious over the failure of the meeting between contractual teachers of the Shiksha Acharya/Anudeshak/Swayum Sewak Sangathan, Uttrakhand, and Principal Secretary Shatrughan Sinha in reaching a decision on Thursday. The association opposed the conclusion drawn by the administration to give permanent jobs to only 717 contractual teachers. The agitators also took out rallies from the Vidhan Sabha to the Rispana river in support of their leader Puran Singh Rana and burnt an effigy of Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank outside the Vidhan Sabha. |
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Pancheshwer dam project likely to start in 5 years
Pitthoragarh, January 24 “A team of experts of the Nepalese government has now started surveying the project,” said Dhruv Raj Devyani, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Power Resources, Nepal. Devyani accompanied by Parveeraj Adiyal, a senior engineer in Power Ministry, and Gosain KC of Nepal Electricity Authority reached Jhoolaghat from Kathmandu yesterday to conduct a survey of the project from the Nepal side. “Our team will remain at the Nepal side of this project for 15 days and visit all 20 affected villages at Jhoolaghat (Nepal), Lali and the Pancheshwar area to take stock of the mood of the people. “If the resistance of people will be less, the project may go into the construction stage by the next five years,” said Devyani. The hopes of construction of this project-awaited from the past 40 years grew stronger after India and Nepal agreed to form a joint authority for this project in November last year. |
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U’khand Kranti Dal submits memorandum to Nishank
Dehradun, January 24 They asked the government to find a way out to tackle the problem and bring down the prices. While in the second demand, the party raised the issue of slums dwellers who they said were promised by the present party, the Municipal Corporation and the councillors to be given the ownership rights, but nothing had happened in this regard. Even a proposal in this regard was sent to the
government by the MC, but nothing had been done as yet. The memorandum was given to the CM by the president of the party Rajiv Juyal. |
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Ministerial staff continue stir
Dehradun, January 24 Work in the different departments of the Ministerial Services in the state continues to suffer. In their memorandum to the authority, the protestors have mentioned the demands of increasing the hike in the income as per the Sixth Pay Commission. With regularisation of the ministerial employees, promotion orders of the awaiting members and setting up a structure of the ministerial workforce were apparently the major issues that were primarily put forth in the notification. District Secretary Sunil Dutt Kothari of the association said the Chief Minister had promised to organise a conference with them soon, but they had not received any
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CPM remembers Basu’s ideology
Dehradun, January 24 The homage ceremony was organised at the city’s old bus stand where leaders and workers of the parties had gathered. The party members articulated their grief on the sudden death of Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal on January 17. Speaking on the occasion, Vijay Rawat, state Secretary of the party, said Basu (96) was a great CPM leader. He was a well-known name in politics not only in India, but in foreign countries as well. He had been the longest-serving Chief Minister of West Bengal (24 years). All other speakers asked the present party workers on the occasion to follow in his footsteps. |
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Three robbers arrested
Dehradun, January 24 The three were planning to commit another robbery in the Aduwala jungle area in Vikasnagar where they had an encounter with the police. After noticing the police, the robbers started firing gunshots to which the former retaliated and later caught them. The accused told the police that they had four more persons involved with them. The police on the information gathered from them has started a search operation for the absconding. The police acted after it got secret information yesterday of suspected persons in the jungle area. The police team, led by Inspector JC Pathak, reached the place where they saw three suspected persons making a plan. The police asked them to surrender, but the robbers instead started firing. However, after a firing encounter, the cops managed to catch hold of the three. During the questioning they accepted to have committed various thefts in Dehradun. Three have been identified as Sahazad, alias Noorhasan, resident of Majara in Patelnagar, Nasir and Shazid, natives of Saharanpur. They had robbed Darogha Rupchand Ramola and daily wage labourer Dalbir Singh Negi, both Forest Department officials, who were carrying Rs 4,88,635 the royalty money from Kulhal situated forest barrier to deposit in the Timli range office. Vikasnagar Circle Officer (CO) GR Bijalwan said they were on the lookout for rest of the four accused who were also involved in various such crime incidents in the area. Charred body of woman found
Nainital: The charred body of a woman was found from near the forest on the Purnagiri Road in Tanakpur yesterday. The deceased has been identified as 45-year-old Parvati Devi of Nayakgoth village. Her family members told the police that she had been missing since Thursday and had been mentally depressed. Residents of Kakraligate village discovered the body on Saturday morning when they were out to gather firewoods. There was a can of kerosene near the body. It is learnt that the deceased, along with her husband, had moved to Nayakgoth from their native village of Tampli in Champawat six months back. The couple worked as labourers to make ends meet. |
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NREGA to provide jobs to 19,632
Dehradun, January 24 The meeting was attended by Block Pramukhs and District Panchayat members. On the occasion, Vice-President of the District Panchayat Shiv Prasad Devli alleged that Gram Vikas Adhikaris were not able to function properly as they had the responsibility of five gram panchayats. He said after ban on mining, the work allocation was getting delayed. On the occasion, Chief Development Officer (CDO) Indudhar Badoi asked the officers to complete the works within the stipulated timeframe. District Development Officer Dr RS Pokhriya said this year 2,032 families had been given jobs. |
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BJP leaders felicitated
Roorkee, January 24 Roorkee MLA (BJP) Suresh Chand Jain, who was the Chief guest, said politics had divided castes for vested interests. He also said from now onwards he would be liked to change his name as Suresh Chand Jain Dhiman. |
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Dehradun, January 24
Dehradun, January 24
