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Mela cops end Kumbh duty with ‘peshwayi’
Cabinet fails to notice garbage heap |
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Publicity gimmick, says Harish Rawat
Explore Himalayas with 10 adventure packages
Clearance to Start Session
Trivedi all-rounder of ICFAI tech event
Jaswant Modern hosts declamation contest
Army jawans get lessons in rafting
Academy holds investiture ceremony
HelpAge to form federation for aged
Ranjit Section win hockey title
Inter-school roller skating today
Welham Girls, Guru Nanak School in hockey final
Shivalik enter soccer quarterfinals
UP defeat Himgiri Sports College
16 teams to compete for gold cup
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Mela cops end Kumbh duty with ‘peshwayi’
Haridwar, April 30
Putting aside differences over rank and home state, thousands of police personnel took a dip in Ganga river just two days after the Maha Kumbh officially got over. As the akhada Peshwayis were dominated by a saffron hue, the police Peshwayi today was coloured in khaki. As many as 20,000-odd mela police personnel had performed Kumbh duty in the four months of the Maha Kumbh. The police Peshwayi was led by mela police chief Deputy Inspector General Alok Sharma duly assisted by Senior Superintendent of Kumbh police Ajay Rautela. The enthusiasm and passion of the police personnel for the Peshwayi and the bath was no less than the akhadas and communities which had taken out peshwayis earlier. Like Naga sadhus, some police personnel applied ash (bhasms) on their bodies and many danced to bhangra beats. The cops, who were spread out over the 130 sq km Kumbh area from January, today converged at one point. And, no security forces were required to manage them. Women police personnel also participated in today’s bath, performed rituals and were seen in a relaxed mood. “It is a satisfying experience and an experience of a lifetime to manage the Maha Kumbh in Haridwar. After the successful completion of the Kumbh, our relaxation can be gauged from the way we are taking part in this bath,” said Deputy Superintendent of Mela police Shweta Chaubey to The Tribune. Mela police personnel have started retreating to their base duty stations. Today’s police bath brings curtains down over their Kumbh duty. Later in the evening, a mass dinner was hosted by DIG mela police for the mela police personnel, district officials as well as media personnel.
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Cabinet fails to notice garbage heap
Haridwar, April 30 To camouflage this from the eyes of Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and his 12-minister team, the mela health personnel put lime and sprayed flowers over the garbage. No high-ranking official took note of this and the cabinet meeting went on after the ministers had taken a dip in the Ganga. Even the Chief Health Officer was seen roaming around the garbage. Many thought that the circle was a design specially made to welcome the cabinet!
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Publicity gimmick, says Harish Rawat
Dehradun, April 30 Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Harish Rawat today criticised Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank for politicising the Ganga. “It will be detrimental to the prospects of the BJP as the common man has seen everything that the BJP has done during Maha Kumbh.” Speaking exclusively to The Tribune, Harish Rawat, who represents the Haridwar constituency in Parliament, said that the BJP first wrongly utilised the state machinery to welcome BJP leaders during Maha Kumbh while it urged non-BJP ministers to not visit Haridwar during this period. “Chief Minister Nishank violated his norms by utilising the whole state machinery to welcome BJP leaders. President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and I refrained from coming to Haridwar during the baths. He has set a wrong precedent. “Today, he held a cabinet meeting on a Ganga ghat. This is merely a publicity gimmick,”said Harish Rawat. “The BJP has suffered two defeats in parliamentary elections and is in a shambles. The same is going to happen to the state BJP government as by making huge claims of success, one can’t hide the fact that mass corruption has been done during Kumbh,” said Rawat. Meanwhile, activists of the Teerth Maryada Samiti protested at the Birla Ghat in Haridwar where a stampede took place on the April 14 Pramukh Shahi Snan. They lashed out at the state government for holding a meeting on the Ganga ghats while still dozens of persons involved in the stampede are missing. The protesters also criticised Nishank for not paying homage to the victims of the stampede.
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Explore Himalayas with 10 adventure packages
Dehradun, April 30 The first seven days trek starts from Rishikesh, covers Kalimath (famous sidh peeth), Tungnath, Gopeshwar, Kartikaiya to Radraprayag before returning to Rishikesh. This package is a complete Himalayan exploration to the heavenly views of the Himalayan range. The route passes through lofty heights from where one can see the enchanting views of fascinating snow covered Himalayas.
Second is nine-day trek along the old pilgrimage route from Gangotri to Sri Kedarnath. The trek traverses through hills, verdant valleys, dense forests, picturesque hamlets and a superb high altitude. From Panwali Katha. Seven days trek from Gangotri-Tapovan-Vasukti Tal takes trekkers to nature’s mysteries through vast stretches, tortuous trek studded with round stones, small streams, blue ice glaciers giving way to the originating roaring Bhagirathi. Long trek of 12 days traversing from series of glaciers passing from Badrinath Ji via Kalindhikhal. It starts with high altitude pass from upper Nandan Van 4,500 m, trek to Vasuki glacier and sightseeing at Vasuki Lake, then steep trek to the
Sualaya glacier and to other side of Seta glacier. Camping is arranged below the Avalanche peak. Then comes crevassed slope of Kalnidhi glacier. Nandprayag-Gorson- Auli, seven-day trek involves a world-class trek at Kuaripass at the height of 4,265 m amidst fascinating surroundings, which starts with Curzon trail. At Kuari, extensive panoramic views of peerless Himalayas from the northeast to the south-east are matchless. This trek is considered most beautiful in the Garhwal Himalayas. For the ten-day, Khatling-Mashar Tal high altitude trek, the trekkers have to be seasoned, physically fit and fully acclimatised. This trek falls in the valley of Bhilangana which gives a breathtaking view of snow clad peaks and hanging glaciers. The trekkers have to cross score of small streams, long bridges and wild life in forests. Uttarkashi-Bewara-Dodital-Yamunotri to Hanumanchatti trek of eight days is uphill trek through beautiful landscapes and thick forests, across ridge and mountain ranges. The trekkers are also taken through villages and introduced to local customs and cuisines. The forest touching to Dodital is a bird watchers’ delight and anglers’ paradise who also get to catch fresh golden trout from the lake. The devotees would certainly love Malla-Budha-Panwali-Gaurikund trek of nine days which takes through Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath. It begins from Malla and till Ghuttu arrival, there is frequent ups and downs. Panwali Katha is dotted with beautiful flower beds, picturesque view of Nanda Devi (7,434m), Neel Kantha(6,596m). The trek ends with Kedarnath shrine amidst the dramatic mountain capes where stands one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva. GMVN has arranged tents where there is no lodges or accommodation available. To be continued
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Clearance to Start Session
Dehradun, April 30 The inspection team that arrived in Srinagar yesterday is expected to give its report in the coming few days. Already ticked off by the MCI for failing to fulfil some of the norms, the inspection is crucial for the medical college. However, after the bribery scandal, sources say the MCI’s reputation is at stake and it will in all probability apply stricter inspection norms that will in turn make things harder for the college. It is reliably learnt that Srinagar Medical College has brought in new faculty, upgraded its website and taken some other steps to bring in line with the MCI norms, but how far these steps manage to persuade the MCI authorities in giving the go-ahead remains to be seen. Significantly, the medical college has not been able to attract faculty members and series of resignations have been taking place since the past one year. Insiders say poor scales being paid to the teaching faculty is one of the main reasons for desertion of faculty members. It remains unattractive as other states and union territories manage to pay much more than the state government is paying. In the previous assessment (August 9) too, the institute had faltered on several norms, the major one was inappropriate number of faculty members and bed occupancy. Meanwhile, Principal of the college V Chopra was present today for the inspection that was conducted by three members of the MCI, who had come from Delhi.
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Trivedi all-rounder of ICFAI tech event
Dehradun April 30 The event was initiated by the Students Welfare Committee where the participants showcased their talents but also serves as an effective platform to enhance the confidence, wisdom and communication skills of the students. The audiences were also enriched with new ideas and discoveries of latest science and technology. The ICFAI University, always aims at all round development of its students. Many more programmes and events are going to be organised throughout the academic session for the intellectual and mental development of the students. Anand Trivedi was the all round winner in the event.
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Jaswant Modern hosts declamation contest
Dehradun April 30 The participating schools were Kasiga School, DAV Public School, Royal College, Raksha Anusandhan Vidhyalaya, Scholar’s Home, Olympus High, Him Jyoti School and Jaswant Modern School. The competition was held in the speech-delivering format with the participants orating on different topics of literature, history etc. The declamation competition was chaired by the principals of different CBSE schools that falls under Sahodya organisation while the judges for the competition were Madhu Anjali, academician, Priya Chauhan, English teacher, Doon School and Ratna Minocha, founder principal, Little Flower.
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Army jawans get lessons in rafting
Pitthoragarh, April 30 For first five days the Army jawans took training in low flowing Saryu river from ghat to Chamgar and there after they were trained in high waters of river Kali on Indo-Nepal border. “This training by KMVN experts will boost the morals and confidence of the jawans,” said AN Sood, an Army officer.
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Academy holds investiture ceremony
Dehradun April 30 The junior school coordinator R Yadav gave brief introduction about the ceremony. The Chief Guest Brother William and Brother AJ George gave an auspicious start to the occasion by lighting the lamp. Brother William placed the badges on each leader and congratulated the proud parents on the occasion. He asked the new office bearers to carry on their responsibilities with obedience and trust. The ceremony included various performances presented by the students of Grade IV and V. The ceremony concluded with vote of thanks followed by a song by the school choir.
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HelpAge to form federation for aged
Dehradun, April 30 He said the HelpAge India was undertaking all efforts in order to unite organisation working for bettering the lives of aged in the country. Dutta dwelt at length on the activities of HelpAge India. The conference also decided to hold another meeting on May 20 towards creation of a federation of the organisation working for the aged. HelpAge India officials Promita Thomas and Dr HS Bakshi were other prominent participant to the conference.
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Ranjit Section win hockey title
Dehradun, April 30 On the last day of this tournament, a total of four matches were played between Ranjit and Shivaji Juniors, Pratap and Chandragupta Middles, Ranjit and Shivaji Seniors and an exhibition match between Shivaji and Chandragupta Seniors. Ranjit defeated Shivaji by 2-0 and both the goals were scored by Cadet Shivshakti Sharma. In the match Pratap vs Chandragupta Middles, the latter defeated Chandragupta 3-2 and the goals for Pratap were scored by Cadet Ravi Pathak, Cadet Pratyush Mohanty and Cadet Ligang Kobing whereas the goals from the opposition were scored by Cadet Jarkop Doke and Cadet Vishal Shaw. In the third match, Ranjit defeated Shivaji 3-1 and the goals were scored by Cadet Arpit Sangwan and Cadet Avinash Kumar whereas the goal for the opposition was scored by Cadet Krishnapal Singh. In the exhibition match played between Shivaji and Chandragupta, the former defeated Chandragupta by 2-1 and the goals for the Shivaji were scored by Cadet Krishnapal Singh and the goals for Chandragupta was scored by Cadet Suhas Wagh. Individual awards in the juniors category were won by Cadet Oinam Nelson of Pratap Section (best player award), Cadet Ajinder Singh Arora of Pratap Section (best goalkeeper) and Cadet Shivtej Sawant of Chandragupta Section (highest scorer). In the middles category the best hockey player as well as the highest scorer awards went to Cadet K Arjun of Ranjit Section and the award for the best goalkeeper was given to Cadet Tabish Hasan of Ranjit Section. In the seniors category, the award for the best hockey player was given to Cadet Mohit Mayank of Ranjit Section, the award for the highest scorer went to Cadet Ayush Salaria of Chandragupta Section and the best goalkeeper award in seniors went to Cadet Surya Prakash of Ranjit Section. The chief guest for the evening was Hardayal Singh, former Olympian and former captain of the Indian hockey team. He addressed the gathering and also talked about various basic skills of hockey. Col H Dharmarajan, SM, Commadant, RIMC, thanked the chief guest for motivating the cadets. Other dignitaries present there were KS Ahlawat, Lieut-Cdr S Chakraborty, Major SR Sahu, Birjesh Chauhan and Mr UP Dalvi.
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Inter-school roller skating today
Dehradun, April 30 Rink races, road races, artistic shows will be organised in different categories of girls and boys. Races will be organised as per rules and regulations of the Roller Skating Federation of India. All skaters under 4 years are participating first time in this event. The main attraction will be the 1st Uttarakhand State Roller Hockey Cup, in which seniors and juniors roller hockey teams will take part from Kasiga, Asian, Aryan, Summer Valley, Mussoorie School and other prominent schools of the region. The overall and best discipline, all rounder and best effort trophies will be awarded. International coach Gulab Choudhry will be the referee of the championship. Meanwhile, the patron-in-chief of the Roller Skating Association and Director of Olympus School, Kunal S Malla and Principal of Kasiga School Sandeep will inaugurate the event, while Director of the school Ramesh Batta will be the chief guest and will distribute the prizes.
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Welham Girls, Guru Nanak School in hockey final
Dehradun, April 30 The final will be played tomorrow at 4:30 pm.While in the first semifinal encounter, the Welham girls had to struggle hard to score a goal and ensure their berth in the final. It defeated the Unison World School by 1-0. The victory became possible for the team with a solitary goal of Shreya in the 11th minute of the game. Though Welham got 11 penalty corners but it couldn’t convert single of them. On the other side, Guru Nanak rained goals on Moravian School to outplay them with 7-0 in another semifinal. Preeti scored in the 13th and 45th minutes of the game. Isha scored in the 16th and 28th minutes. Lakshmi also netted two goals for her side. She converted one through penalty corner in the 22nd minute while she scored her next goal in the 40th minute. Priya netted a goal in the 23rd minute. The winning team got five penalty corners and Moravian School got four.
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Shivalik enter soccer quarterfinals
Dehradun, April 30 Shivalik gave no chance to its rival team to make any strong move in the game. It dominated the match right from the start. The first success came for the Shivalik team in the 40th minute when Sushil Rawat scored
a goal. The first half ended with score reading 1-0 in the favour of Shivalik. The second goal was scored by Sandeep in the 56th minute. The Nagar Nigam failed to retaliate. Vinod struck the third goal in the 69th minute to completely shatter hopes of Nagar Nigam to make come back in the match. With this victory Shivalik entered the quarterfinal. Meanwhile, Eleven Star will take on CT Young tomorrow.
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UP defeat Himgiri Sports College
Dehradun, April 30 Uttar Pradesh batting first mustered 151 runs. Rohit (36) was the main scorer. In reply, Sports College was bowled all out for 100 runs. While in the second match, Uttar Pradesh thrashed Jind, Haryana by six wickets. Raman of Haryana scored 40 runs in 31 balls while Amit of UP took three wickets. Himgiri Sports College also beat Haryana by seven runs in another match. The Himgiri College scored 98 runs while batting first. Haryana team could just score 91 runs.
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16 teams to compete for gold cup
Dehradun, April 30 The tournament is being organised by the Uttarakhand Cricket Association. This was announced by the organisers of the championship at a press conference held at a hotel here today. PC Sharma, secretary of the association,
said the 16 teams had been divided intofour groups. Top teams from every group would enter the quarterfinals. Last year’s semifinalists Air India, NE Railway, Jain Irrigation, Mumbai and BSNL had been given direct entries into the quarterfinals. The quarterfinals will commence on May 13 and the final will be played on May 16. IPL fame Joginder Sharma, Jogender Singh, Saurabh Tewari and Dinesh Mongia are likely to participate in the tournament. The winning team will rewarded with Rs 1 lakh and the runner-up team will get Rs 50,000. Teams reaching semifinals will also get Rs 15,000 each. Besides, man of the tournament and each member of the final playing teams would get prizes.
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government and the mela administration might be going on at length over the successful arrangements and facilities provided for the Maha Kumbh in Haridwar, yet the sorry state of affairs haunted the Cabinet meeting.
The ones who are hardcore adventure lovers and do not mind investing their time in travelling can pick from 10 package tours offered by the Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam (GMVN) which range from three to 12 days. Loaded with heavy-duty adventure activities, the packages present a big variety to choose from. Managing Director, VVRC Purushotam said, “The treks which already existed have been made more commercial, alluring and lucrative with the offers of better facilities in terms of lodging, food, first aid, services of trained mountaineering, tour escorts and experienced camp followers.”
After giving training to rural youths from Pitthoragarh and Nanital district, adventure sports wing of Kumoan Mandal Vikas Nigam
(KMVN) has now started giving rafting training to the Army jawans.“Eleven officers and jawans from First Archers Regiment took ten days training of river rafting from our experts,” said Dinesh Gururani, manager of the training camp.
HelpAge India held a conference at Arya Samaj Mandir here today. The conference was aimed to constitute a federation of all voluntary organisations working for welfare of aged.Senior HelpAge India official Avinash Dutta expressed concern over slow pace of implementation of national policy for aged. He said efforts needed to be done to improve the living of the people in higher age groups.
Welham Girls School and Guru Nanak School today won their respective semifinals to enter the final of the ongoing Inter-Council School Junior Girls Hockey Tournament played on Welham Girls School ground, here today.The final will be played tomorrow at 4:30 pm.While in the first semifinal encounter, the Welham girls had to struggle hard to score a goal and ensure their berth in the final.
