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Katarmal to re-open its gate to past glory
Bomb hoax at Paltan Bazar, caller held |
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Fight for justice to Meena goes on
DSU offers courses without entrance test
DM on Green Doon mission
Willis Youth defeat Sports Hostel 2-0
Quality weapons vital for national security: Experts
Jain Muni for ban on liquor in state
‘Need to involve community todetect TB cases’
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Katarmal to re-open its gate to past glory
The authorities had recently discovered stairs on the eastern side of the temple, raising the possibility of existence of a main door that may have got buried or lost due to disuse with the passage of time. “The Roorkee-based Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) will be roped in so that the original entry point can be restored,” said Dr DN Dimri, Superintendent Archaeology, Survey of India (Dehradun Circle). The ASI had recently hit upon the entrance during the excavation at the site and interaction with the locals confirmed ASI’s doubt after the locals mentioned about a possible entry point that may have existed. “The Konark Sun Temple in Orissa too has the main entrance in the east. In fact, according to the Vedic books on temple architecture, Sun temples were designed primarily in a manner facing the eastward direction. But the Katarmal temple strangely opened through a wicket gate, almost in one corner,” said Dr DN Dimri. In all, there are 45 temples and these can be approached only through the wicket gate on the rear side. This gate also connects the temple to the Katarmal village. The ASI is now working overtime to revive the entrance and a budget estimate too has been prepared. Discussions are also being held with the Director General, Archaeology Survey of India (ASI). The ASI is optimistic that once the work begins, the original entrance from the Kosi river to the temple would not only decongest the area, but would be able to hold crowds that at times outnumber estimates. Katarmal in Almora district boasts of being the second most important Sun temple in the country, the first being the one in Konark. This 800-year-old temple complex has one main temple, surrounded by 45 smaller shrines. The CBRI, Roorkee, and the Archaeology Survey of India (ASI), Dehradun, had also carried out a seismic strengthening project here.
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Bomb hoax at Paltan Bazar, caller held
Dehradun, July 16 The police also rounded up two mobile instrument shop owners for the accused often used to sit at their shops and has procured the sim cards from there only. The cops are questioning them whether they had some involvement in the crime and how come a sim card got issued from their shops without any identity proof. The police said specific reason of the hoax calls didn’t come to light. However, it said the man made calls as a mischievous act in an attempt to trouble the police and it suspected him of being bit psychic. His involvement in making hoax calls on July 12 threatening to have planted a bomb to blast the Paltan Bazar couldn’t be confirmed since some another cellphone was used to make those calls. The phone couldn’t be tracked down since it was switch off. The accused has been identified as Kuljit, a resident of Race Course and has been sitting idle for long. The police today arrested him from his house. A woman constable also alleged last night that she received a vulgar message from the same phone number and she had lodged a complaint with the police. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) GS Martoliya at a press conference said he used to sit at two of his friends shop from where he procured the sim cards and it was yet to be verified that whether he stole the sims from there or the shop owners sold him without identity proof. “After being caught he refused to have made calls but a wrapper of the sim with which calls were made was recovered from his pocket,” the SSP said. Kuljit had called up 108 and 100 numbers at 8:33 and 8:43 in the morning claiming himself to be one Gudpal Singh Martola. He threatened to blow off the Paltan Bazar. “This time we had done a silent inspection and hadn’t got the whole Paltan Bazar vacated like the last time since we had got the clue that it was the handiwork of some troublemaker,” the SSP said. Meanwhile, a case under section 153-A of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at the Kotwali police station.
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Fight for justice to Meena goes on
Dehradun, July 16 Today, a delegation of workers met Governor Margaret Alva. At the Gandhi Park, the indefinite hunger strike of two girls Jyoti and Rajni entered its 10th day today. The health of these determined girls was reported as deteriorating. Meena Gola was an active social worker who wanted to be a self dependent but her family wanted to marry her off since the time she turned 15. Her orthodox family stooped so low that it allegedly killed its daughter along with some relatives and villagers. Meena Gola, a native of Baintwala village at Jaspur of Udham Singh Nagar district, was famed in her area for being an active social activist. She would help students, girls and deprived people with every means that she could. Though the family had enough money to pay the fees for her studies, but would never give it as it wanted Meena to get married and stay at home. This cut no ice with her because she wanted to be independent. She would impart tuitions, give coaching of kathak in which she was adept and worked in factories to earn money for her fees and help needy people. She had also been honoured by several dignitaries including former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand ND Tiwari. All this should have made her family proud, but the family of Meena took it very differently. Besides her family, she was also a problem for her area’s liquor mafias for she, uniting the local women, would launch drives against them. The majority in this male-dominated village also stood in her opposition and there used to be quarrels at her place often over these issues. Hence, her family wanted her to quit all this and get married. “Meena had indicated to us that her family was against her and could do ‘anything’. Fearing her family, she stayed with us for two nights. The next day, she went back to her house and stayed there at night,” Rajni, a friend of Meena and a co-worker at the Parivartankami Chatra Sangathan told The Tribune. “But as we were apprehensive about her, we called her up in morning. Her mother picked up the phone and said she had gone to the market. This, we believe, was not true. “After a few hours, we came to know that she was killed and was being cremated. All of us rushed to the spot where the family claimed that she had committed suicide. “Later in the FIR, they stated that she died of a heart attack,” Rajni added. “Some villagers, including the Gram Pradhan, were involved in the killing. According to local persons, she was raped and electrocuted. To get rid of the evidence, they, without the knowledge of the police, cremated the body. “The culprits got away as the SDM and CO took no action due to the alleged political connections of the Gram Pradhan,” added Bhupal Singh, a worker of Krantikari Lokadhikar Sanghathan. “We have a CD which exposes the false claims of the family. In it, the family is seen first saying that she committed suicide and later that she had a heart attack. We are distributing these CDs among people. This is to ask the police that why the post-mortem examination of the body was not done... and why it was allowed to be burnt,” Nitin Mudepi, general secretary of Parivartankami Chatra Sangathan, said. Surender Bhagat, DIG (Law and Order), whom a delegation of workers met a few days earlier told The Tribune, “The matter is under probe. We are looking into it and nothing can be said at present.” The delegation has already met the DGP, DM, CO, SDM of Kashipur but in vain.
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DSU offers courses without entrance test
Haridwar, July 16 Under this new form called “Convergence Scheme”, a pattern has been developed under which degree, PG diploma and certificate-level courses have been developed wherein direct admission facility is available without any entrance test procedure. At the graduate level courses in BA (tourism), PG (journalism, nutrition, health education), certificate courses in business skill, food and nutrition, guidance, personality development, family management, Indian culture, and foundation courses in yoga sciences and health conservation have been developed. Talking about this joint developmental programme, the Vice-Chancellor of DSU, Dr SP Mishra, said people from all parts of the country could avail themselves of this joint programme with the educational material available in Hindi and English. “For these courses minimum qualification is high school and maximum graduation degree by Dev Sanskriti University itself. Fee structure is different for all courses ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 per year, said Dr Mishra. The Director of Distance Education Department, Dr Mamta Bhatnagar, said the last date of submission of forms was July 31. The university getting form enquiries in large numbers.
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ONGC holds plantation drive
Dehradun, July 16 ONGC’s Executive Director Extension Sundarlal inaugurated the plantation programme by planting tree saplings at ONGC helipad. He stressed on the importance of environment conservation. He also apprised that the ONGC plans to plant as many as 700 fruit trees as part of the campaign. He said the ONGC after plantation will also undertake all care of the planted saplings. General Manager (Human Resource) SP Topo, Deputy General Manager (Civil) Rajkumar and Civil Engineer Civil M R Lochas were present on the occasion.
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DM on Green Doon mission
Dehradun, July 16 A letter had been issued to the authorities of the institutions yesterday. They had been asked to depute a competent representative in the meeting. Talking to The Tribune, Pandiyan said, “The meeting would be held at the Collectorate Office for deliberations and chalking out a concerted line of action for evolving a sustainable waste management programmed for the capital city. The environment of Dehradun is deteriorating due to unscientific waste handling and disposal,” he added. “There cannot be two opinions that we have a joint role in addressing the garbage problem especially in tackling the “on campus waste” which tends to inflow in the city through various means or is indiscriminately disposed off in the dry river beds that constitute the drainage system of Dehradun. It is a matter of serious concern as all eastward flowing dry rivers drain into the Ganga and westward flowing rivers into the Yamuna.” According to the Solid Waste Management Rules 2000 formulated under the directions of the Supreme Court, it is mandatory for every citizen of the country to manage their garbage in a scientific manner. Likewise, the state government has also resolved to make the city as “Green Doon,” he said. “The bulk generators which consist of human intensive activity areas which include institutions of higher learning have a bigger responsibility to dispose of their garbage as per the directives mentioned in schedule,” he stated. Panel to inspect city’s cleanliness To better the sanitation condition in the city, District Magistrate D Santhiyal Pandiyan held a meeting with the officers of the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC). He said a joint inspection committee would be created which would have the City Magistrate, CO (City) and City Health Officer, who would inspect the sanitary condition of the city in three days of a week. He also directed district panchayat officers to depute six officers at district level to participate in the campaign. He said this would send a good message to people to keep their city clean. To improve the sanitary condition, the city has been divided into six zones to be handled by six zonal officers, who will give their daily progress report to the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari Indu Kumar Bodaiwho will then pass on the report to the District Magistrate. Pandiyan said the garbage must be lifted everyday and none of the dustbin placed by the DMC should overflow. He also directed the City Health Officer to direct supervisors to keep their areas clean even at night. To tighten the grip around erring big shopkeepers and rheri owners, who throw garbage outside, should also be punished under Section 133. The District Magistrate also informed that 51 schools, hotels and hospitals of the city had been directed to dispose the garbage collection on their premises by themselves. The meeting was attended by Mukhya Nagar Adhikari Indu Kumar Bodai, Assistant Mukhya Nagar Adhikari Harak Singh Rawat, City Magistrate Meharban Singh Bisht, Health Officer, DMC, Dr Gurpal Singh, District Public Relation Officer MA Khan.
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Doon Star thump U’khand Club 7-1
Dehradun, July 16 Chamoli found the nets in the 25th minute of the game. Roshini team put up a good competition but struggled to score a goal. The match saw In another match Doon Star thump Uttarakhand Club 7-1. Nitin Saini (fifth and seventh minutes), Lobsang (13th), Sahid (16th), Prashant (40th and 50th) and Tenzing (42nd) scored for Doon Star. While Umang (36th) was the only scorer for the opponent side, which struggled to match up to the performance of the winning team. Meanwhile in tomorrow’s fixtures, City young will face DMK and Akranta will take on Doon United.
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Willis Youth defeat Sports Hostel 2-0
Dehradun, July 16 Arpan (seventh minute) and Mohit (56th) scored a goal each in this easy win. Sports Hostel could not scored even a single goal. Whereas in the second match Uttarakhand Police posted a 6-0 dominating victory over Cantt Blue Sher Singh (24th) opened the account of the winning team. While Saurabh scored a fine brace scoring a goal each in the 28th and 43rd minute. Ashok (31th), Narender (46th) and Suresh (69th) netted a goal each to increase the score tally. Tomorrow, Vijay Cantt will play against Gypsy while Garhwal Sporting will face Yankies.
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Quality weapons vital for national security: Experts
Dehradun, July 16 “It is absolutely critical that components remain durable and functional under extreme conditions and hence, quality in defence industries is very important,” Rao said. He added that a growing need to reduce dependency on imported technology was also being felt and achieving self-reliance was the need for the hour. DVK Rao, Deputy Director General, Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), in his keynote address, referred to the activities of SODET. He said that it has become imperative for the defence PSUs and the OFB to exchange information about the technologies available. These bodies should pool their resources and avoid duplication of infrastructure, ensure better utilisation of assets, share research and development-related information for product improvement and development of new products. Earlier, BG Raj, Member Secretary, welcomed the participants to the seminar. He said he was hopeful that the deliberations at the seminar would lead to better exchange of information between all 41 defence production units. Jointly organised by the Ordnance Factory Board in assistance with Opto Electronics Factory and Ordnance Factory, Dehradun, the workshop saw the participation of scientists from defence public sector undertakings and ordnance factories.
Bofors gun being upgraded
The Bofors gun from Switzerland is being upgraded. En course his address at the ongoing two-day national seminar on ‘Quality in Defence Equipments’, SP Yadav, General Manager, Gun Carriage Factory, Jabalpur, said that the upgrade of Bofors was in progress to cater to the fast-changing requirements of the Indian Army. After being in the thick of a scam during the days of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the Bofors gun had proved its credibility during the Kargil War due to its high effectiveness in mountainous regions.
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Jain Muni for ban on liquor in state
Terming Nishank as a leader with a vision, Chinmay Sagar Maharaj pointed out that various ills had crept into people’s behaviour due to these things which were mostly responsible in affecting spiritual and natural atmosphere of this state. The saint urged people to have religious faith as in this tense materialistic life people are forgetting humanity, compassion, non-violence which was paving way for various ills in society. Speaking at the Digambar Jain temple in Laltaura, he stated that there should be no space for fascism in religion. He urged politicians, religious heads and common people to make stronger the nation not weaken it with personal motives only. “Without faith and devotion one can neither carry out family works nor his professional duties and it also takes you at a distant from the Almighty. Have faith and don’t let malices to control your mind, think for humanity, nation not become a self-oriented one,” said Muni. A large of number of devotees attended the saint’s sermon. Balesh Chand Jain, Prakash Kumar, Amit, Rakesh, Dhanend, Nirmal, Piyush, Satish, Sadhu Ram Jain, Sunil, Vipul, Ravi Nandan, Shri Pal and Shravan Kumar helped organise the sermon.
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‘Need to involve community todetect TB cases’
Dehradun, July 16 “While the detection rate at the national level is 70 per cent, in Uttarakahnd it is 30 per cent, we have to improve our performance by reaching out to the hidden population so that Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) programme could be started,” said Dr AP Mamgai, Director National Programme at the Regional Consultative meeting of partners for tuberculosis care and control that concluded today. Taking an overview of the programme, Dr Mamgai said for complete eradication of TB, participation of communities is essential, “I am not entirely satisfied with the way we are taking up the TB programme, much more needs to be done and we are looking at forming linkages with communities and even housing small microscopy centres to increase the reach of patients,” explained Dr Mamgai. Adding that these microscopy units would act as diagnostic centres for patients giving them access to diagnosis and treatment. In Uttarakhand for 2004-2009, the total number of registered number of tuberculosis cases is 71,944. In Dehradun the number of cases is 15,236, in Haridwar-9,723, Uttarkashi-2,806, Tehri-4,463, Almora-4,135, Bageshwar-1469, Chamoli-3,299, Champawat-1,443, Nainital-8,740, Pithoragarh-30,40, Rudraprayag-2,017, Pauri-5,143 and Uttarkashi-2,806. The programme coordinators are also for synergy between ayurveda and homeopathy so that immunity boosting medicines could used along with DOT treatment system.
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The eastern entry to the nation’s second most important Sun temple being revived
Within hours after a man called up control room (100) and emergency service (108) threatening to blow up the Paltan Bazar with a bomb, the Dehradun police track him down with the help of his phone number.
Dehradun, July 16
A two-day national seminar on ‘Quality in Defence Equipments’ started in Dehradun today.Inaugurating the seminar, M Narayana
Rao, Chairman, Society of Defence Technologists (SODET), emphasised on quality asserting that the slightest error could jeopardise not only the life of soldiers but also national security.
Dehradun, July 16
Haridwar, July 16