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Central Excise Exemption
Power staff seek enhanced quota posts
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BJP workers burn Centre’s effigy
Kailash Mansarovar Yatra
Leopard skin, bear’s gal bladder seized, two held
IAF recruitment rally from June 15
GMVN employees call off strike
Central Silk Board staff hold demonstration
Biomedical waste: Board gets tough against defaulters
Youth’s body found buried in sand
Now, DMC targets illegal hoardings atop houses
Make science popular among local people: Khanduri
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Central Excise Exemption
Dehradun, May 13 The vital concessions of the industrial package were extended to states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and came to an end on March 31, 2010. To convey the state’s point of view, Dr Pokhriyal, along with his cabinet colleagues, had also met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He had conveyed to the Prime Minister that with the sunset clause coming to an end, the industrial activity too would become static. “Not only are we demanding extension of the Central excise exemption till 2013 as given by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, arbitrarily cut short by the UPA government, but extend it to 2020 to give further boost to industrial climate in the state,” said Dr Pokhriyal. Both Chief Ministers had held lengthy discussions on the issue at a joint meeting in Shimla on April 12. |
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Power staff seek enhanced quota posts
Dehradun, May 13 Principal general secretary of the association EDR Raghu has demanded clearance of the back log in vacancies and promotions of employees belonging to these categories with the help of a liaison officer, regularisation of daily wage earners and ad hoc employees with benefits of reservation as mentioned above, grant of the title of administrative officers to superintendents, etc.
Harbans Kapoor, Speaker, Vidhan Sabha, who was present on the occasion, assured the association members that he would take up the matter with the state government. Those attended the seminar included Jai Pal Singh, president of the Dalit Sahitya
Akademi, Sharad Krishnan, HR Director, UPCL. |
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BJP workers burn Centre’s effigy
Dehradun, May 13 Addressing the protesters, Puneet Mittal, Mahanagar BJP president, accused the Congress-led Centre of resorting to a step-motherly treatment of the state government. He even accused the Congress MPs from Uttarakhand of adopting a complacent attitude towards industrial package issue. Leader of the BJP Sunil Uniyal Gama said by not
extending the industrial package, the Centre was doing great injustice to the unemployed people of the state. He also held the Congress responsible for rising inflation in the country. Ranjit Bhandari, Sitaram Bhatt, Kamli Bhatt and Sanjiv Verma were prominent persons among the protesters. |
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Kailash Mansarovar Yatra
Pitthoragarh, May 13 “The Ministry of External Affairs, government of India, this year has sent a selection note to 1,600 applicants from all over the India. They are sending 300 more letters of selected pilgrims this week. It means this year every yatra will have more than 60 pilgrims,” said DK Sharma Regional Manager, Tourism, KMVN. According to the KMVN sources, this number of applications is the highest in the past 25 years. “This pilgrimage, which was resumed in 1981, began with 59 pilgrims of three batches, and has so far more than 10,000 pilgrims from all over India to holy Kailash and Mansarovar,” said Sharma. Besides erecting extra boarding capacity in every track route camp, the Nigam had also mobilised other essential facilities to these camps as well, he added. |
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Leopard skin, bear’s gal bladder seized, two held
Dehradun, May 13 According to Paramjeet Singh, Uttarakhand Anti-poaching Head, revealed that the entire operation was carried out under the supervision of the WPSI and Himachal authorities. He said the operation was well prepared and done in excellent coordination. Among those arrested was Suresh Kapoor, son of Jagat Singh resident of Sirmour district. The wildlife authorities also seized a Mahindra utility car. Only a few days back on May, two heads of a jackal and meat were recovered after a raid was held in Sapera Basti, Rispana bridge area of Dehradun. |
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IAF recruitment rally from June 15
Dehradun, May 13 The officer said there were two Airman Selection Nodal Centres in Uttarakhand that worked for the recruitment of the force. June 16 would be the date for the selection of applicants from the Kumaon circle at Sports Stadium, Rudrapur, while there would be a written examination for the applicants of Almora, Champavat and Udham Singh Nagar. The shortlisted candidates of the written examination would be further participating in a health training programme. Similarly, the applicants of Pitthoragarh, Bageshwar and Nainital would appear for the examination on June 18 while the shortlisted candidates would participate in the health training on June 19. He also said the eligibility for the recruitment was intermediate pass or three years’ of experience in polytechnic in engineering or diploma of the equivalent level. |
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GMVN employees call off strike
Dehradun, May 13 UC Kabadwal, General Manager, Tourism, said the employees organisation was convinced that the nigam would send the proposal of regularisation of staff to the government. The employees were also assured that they would be taken into confidence before taking any final decision on the decentralisation of the administration. Purushotam Puri, president of employees body, confirmed that the management had agreed to enforce the same work, same pay rule. The management has sought a month’s time to fulfil their demands. Rajesh Naithani, GM (administration), UC Kabadwal, GM Tourism, KN Sharma, Company Secretary, DS Ashwal, Marketing Industry, General Manager were present during talks. From the Dehradun headquarters were SP Pant, Vice-President, Harinder Kainture, Secretary, Rakesh Ramola, Accountant, Dinesh Uniyal, Accountant, Treja and Uma Rani, working committee members. Tourists
inconvenienced
Mussoorie: Earlier, tourists who had made their bookings at the GMVN hotel here were at a loss of words on their arrival at the hotel today. With employees on strike, there was no one to receive them at the reception. The hotel staff gathered in front of the hotel gate and raised slogans against the policies of the government. Confusion prevailed when tourists were informed about the indefinite strike of employees of the GMVN, a subsidiary of the state government that runs the hotel here. Occupancy at one of the profitable hotels of the GMVN was just picking up when its staff went on strike. The 25-strong staff at Mussoorie had said they would not end the strike till their demands were met by the government. The protesters had demanded regularisation of daily wagers, contractual employees and compliance of the Supreme Court’s order on the same post, same salary. Ramesh, a leader of the employees, said the government was trying to sell prime properties of the nigam to the land mafia and multinationals and that would not be tolerated. Tourists were seen moving to other hotels. Ramji Bhai from Saurashtra was of the view that at least they should have been informed about the strike in advance so that they could make necessary arrangements. |
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Central Silk Board staff hold demonstration
Dehradun, May 13 The strike is in support of the Board time-scale farm labourers of Pampore (Jammu and Kashmir) who are on strike since May 11 demanding restoration of temporary status scale plan. Ram Preet, time-scale farm labourer of the Central Silk Board (Majra), said a memorandum of demands had been submitted to the member secretary, Central Silk Board, Bangalore. The time-scale farm labourers who have been working for the past 22-25 years are demanding pay scales and other benefits equivalent to Group D employees that was given to them in 2005 and later taken back within a month. The demands of the labourers include raising the retirement age from 55 to 60 years, medical and pension facilities among others. It may be mentioned that in Dehradun there are 43 time-scale farm labourers and they are still to register their organisation as such they seek directions from sister organisation Central Silk Board Workers Union (Reg) Pampore (Jammu
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Biomedical waste: Board gets tough against defaulters
Dehradun, May 13 The Bio-Medical Waste (BMW) Management and Handling Rules, 1998, mandate hospitals to ensure that such waste is handled without any adverse effect on human health and environment. “We issued notices under section 5-15 to defaulting private clinics and 16 government hospitals on March 31. They were given 45 days’ time to comply as per the rules and as the deadline ended today, regional offices are expected to present a complete report,” said Ankur Kansal, Assistant Environment Officer. The board is initially targeting Dehradun district and in the next coming days similar exercise will be launched in Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar. By 2002, all health care institutions were expected to have incinerators, autoclaves or microwaves to destroy infectious waste. In the hills, the biomedical waste is still being disposed of through deep burial arrangement. “We want to ensure that hazardous waste is not transported long distances. For this reason deep burial arrangement to get rid of the waste is preferred,” said Dr Suman Arya, Joint Director (Medical Care). The total biomedical waste generated per bed per day in major hospitals in Uttarakhand is 180 gm in the plains and 140 gms in the hills. In the small hospitals it is 150 grams in the plains and 110 grams in the hills. Even the report released by the board carries the advise that the number of common biomedical waste treatment facilities be increased manifold, preferably through public-private partnerships. It also recommended that new technologies be promoted to destroy toxic biomedical waste. For example, the Department of Science and Technology's plasma technology project to incinerate waste should be expedited. However, a proposal to set up a plasma technology incinerator at the Doon Hospital is still pending. “Problems regarding availability of extra land is still being sorted out,” said Dr CP
Arya, DG, Health. |
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Youth’s body found buried in sand
Nainital, May 13 The scared children informed passers-by and gradually a large number of people gathered at the spot. It is learnt that the deceased bore injury marks on his head. Efforts to get him identified proved to
be futile. It is being assumed that the youth had been killed with repeated attacks on his head with a hammer-like object. It is also being assumed that he was killed somewhere else and the body dumped at the spot. The reason for this assumption is the recovery of a blood-stained sack from nearby. A stamp of the Principal of a school in Kanthariya in Bareilly has provided the police with the clue that the deceased might be a resident of that place. A team has been dispatched to Kanthariya to investigate the matter. Robbers decamp with cash, gold
The township of Kitcha in Udham Singh Nagar has been stunned by an armed robbery of Rs 2.5 lakh in cash and about 220 gm of gold in the residential Awas Vikas Colony. Four dacoits, said to be in the age group of 20 to 25 years, descended on the house of Jogendra Lal Arora who works as a commission agent. The four youths allegedly came in a luxury car and entered the house of Arora brandishing pistols and revolvers on Wednesday afternoon. Holding Arora, his wife Rekha and domestic help Ritu at gunpoint, they demanded the keys to the cupboards and lockers. The accused then went on to extract the cash and jewellery from the cupboards. While leaving the house they also snatched the jewellery worn by Rekha. They also took away two mobile phones and cut the wires of the landline phone in the house. It was after their departure that the residents of the house raised an alarm and informed the police. The police has expressed confidence in working out the case soon. 5 vehicle thieves arrested
Dehradun: With the arrest of five persons, including four minors yesterday, the police here claimed to have busted a gang of auto lifters that was active
in Dehradun. The five, Sonu, Digambar, Dinesh and Aman, all residents of Chandramani and Manish, resident of Transport Nagar, were arrested by the police from the Turner road here. The police acted after a tip-off that some vehicle lifters were taking the stolen vehicles to Saharanpur. A police team reached the spot and nabbed the five with three stolen motorcycles and two scooters, including a burnt one. Some of them have already been into jail in connection with cycle and wood theft cases. Circle Officer (CO) Shahjahan Ansari said Manish, the only adult in the gang and Sonu used to operate the gang while rest all used to work for them. “The four of them are in the age group of 15 to 16 years and are not professional and organised. A case of theft has been registered in the Patel Nagar police station and the four minor will be sent to the juvenile court. |
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Now, DMC targets illegal hoardings atop houses
Dehradun, May 13 Azhar Ali, Superintendent, who carried out the entire campaign under his supervision, said, “As per the data available with us, there are total 207 hoardings on rooftops of houses, out of which 91 were allotted to owners the previous year. Therefore, these will be considered legal, and the rest of these will be counted as illegal”. As per the hoarding policy released by the Mayor, all hoardings fixed on rooftops were declared illegal, but rejecting that policy as null and void, the MNA is now going by the records available and a fresh survey is being conducted. After which, he will classify legal and illegal hoardings and take action accordingly. The picture is clear on the removal of illegal hoardings, but the real dilemma is about the course of action to be taken for legal hoardings. “I am not yet clear whether legal hoardings on roofs will be spared or removed. The matter will be cleared with the MNA in a day or two till the survey work is completed,” said Ali. Till now, 52 big hoardings and 300 small hoardings on the roads have been removed. |
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Make science popular among local people: Khanduri
Dehradun, May 13 He also said the association should take proper care in making the balance between scientific research and the organising process. The meeting was held under the presidency of chief convener of the association Prof Dhirender Sharma and state president Dr Devender Bhasin. |
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Workers of the BJP’s Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Mandal today burnt an effigy of the Central government at Vidhan Sabha Chowk here.
Addressing the protesters, Puneet Mittal, Mahanagar BJP president, accused the Congress-led Centre of resorting to a step-motherly treatment of the state government. He even accused the Congress MPs from Uttarakhand of adopting a complacent attitude.
Dehradun, May 13
Nainital, May 13
