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Azad promises more hospitals in the North
HC notice to state on labour laws
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Poppy processing machine seized in vigilance raid
Stone of degree college building laid
Two Nauni university scientists awarded
Gautam is MNREGA ombudsman
Stallio Indian ride flagged off
Panel to monitor grants
Games for special kids held
June 30 last date for admission
Minor raped by father
Man run over by tractor
House gutted
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Azad promises more hospitals in the North
Tanda, November 24 Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said this while speaking at a function organised in Dr RP Tanda Medical College here today. He was here to lay the foundation stone of superspeciality wing in the Tanda medical college at a cost of Rs 150 crore.
He said if the present state of medical education continued, it would take another 150 years for the country to overcome the shortage of registered medical practitioners. He further said to overcome the shortage of faculty in medical colleges, the government had decided to raise the retirement of the faulty to 70 years. It had already been raised to 65 years in Central medical institutions. “I have also written to the state government to increase the retirement age of the faculty in medical colleges to 65 years. However, just the Kerala government has complied and increased the retirement age from 55 to 65 years”, Ghulam Nabi Azad said. He said there were 314 medical colleges in the country. About 80 per cent of these were located in South India. The government intended to increase the number of medical colleges in the country to 600 in the next few years. A majority of these colleges would be opened in North India to balance the ratio. In the hill areas, the conditions for setting up medical colleges had also been relaxed. In the hill areas, now just 20 acre of land and that also in two pieces was required for setting a medical college. The minister, however, disappointed the state Minister of Health Rajiv Bindal by not accepting any of the demands raised by him. Bindal in his speech earlier had demanded another Rs 600 crore scheme for the upgradation of the Tanda medical college. Ghulam Nabi Azad, however, stated that there was no such scheme available with the Union Government. Bindal also demanded that the state should be given parity with Northeastern states in the National Rural Health Mission scheme as a special category state. He, however, skipped the issue. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said Himachal was the best state in the country in implementing the Central scheme. However, still the Planning Commission had not allotted it the budget according to the state’s expectations.
Not invited, Cong leaders angry
Kangra: Ghulam Nabi Azad was welcomed at the Kangra airport near Gaggal this morning by Chief Minister P.K.Dhumal, his Cabinet colleagues and the district authorities. But the Congress leaders Prof. Chander Kumar, a former MP, and Kewal Singh Pathania, former NSUI state chief, who received him at the airport, refused to accompany the Union Minister to Dr. R.P.Govt. Medical College, Tanda, in protest against the failure of the organisers to invite them to the function.
When Azad asked both leaders to accompany him to the Tanda medical college, they refused saying that they were not invited to the function by the Health Department. — OC |
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HC notice to state on labour laws
Shimla, November 24 While passing this order, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice VK Ahuja further directed the Labour Commissioner to file his affidavit regarding the implementation of the various Labour Laws particularly in the unorganised sector. This matter came to the notice of the court by a news item published in these columns (The Tribune) on November 7, 2011, “Labour laws being flouted with impunity”. After taking cognizance on this, the court treated the news item as PIL and issued notices to the Principal Secretaries, Labour and Industries, and listed the matter for further hearing on March 3, 2011. The news item reported that lack of implementation of the labour laws in the state was causing labour exploitation in the industrial areas and the officials of the labour department do little to check these.
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Poppy processing machine seized in vigilance raid
Mandi, November 24 Acting on the intelligence input, SP Vigilance Virender Sharma constituted the team under inspector Madan Lal and raided the Pokhri village house in early hours today. The team seized 1.70 kg of opium, 81 kg of poppy husk, 11 kg of raw poppy husk (doda) and 370 gms of charas from the house. The team found that Oot Ram and his sons Sita Ram and Shiv Ram, had run their contraband business from their house over the years. The team seized a poppy processing machine, used to produce husk and other drug derivatives, the team revealed. In fact, the remote villages in the Sainj valley in Kullu district have become the den for illicit opium cultivators as the demand for the poppy husk or chura post, marijuana, ganja and charas find ready underworld markets in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi and outside. The truck drivers and conductors operating in the cement plants in Barmana, Bagha, Darlaghat and other places are the targeted consumers of the chura post and ganja and marijuana, besides foreigners who frequent the valleys, sources revealed. SP Vigilance Sharma told The Tribune that father and son duo had been arrested under Sections 15,18, 20 and 29 of the NDPS Act while efforts were on to nab his second son Shiv Ram. Sharma said the opium poppy was grown in the remote villages in Sainj valley illegally.
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Stone of degree college building laid
Kangra, November 24 He said 90 kanal of land had been transferred in the name of the Education Department for development of the college. He said that the government was providing free education to girl students from first standard to the highest standard, besides many scholarships under different schemes. He said it was one of the parameter which had made HP a model state in primary education at the national level. He said during the previous BJP regime, every primary school was provided three cemented-room accommodation by spending Rs 126 crore. The Chief Minister said the state government was live to the problems of the farmers and there was no ban on hunting monkeys for crop protection. He said it was due to the religious sentiments of the people that they were reluctant to shoot the monkey. He said that state had opened four monkey sterlisation hospitals at Gopalpur in Kangra, Tutikandi in Shimla, Una and Nadaun in Hamirpur. He said about 20,000 monkeys had so far been sterlised by the centres so far.
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Two Nauni university scientists awarded
Solan, November 24 The scientists were awarded at an impressive ceremony where more than 500 scientists were present from across the country. It was inaugurated by Dr M S Swaminathan, a world renowned scientist and chairperson, National Commission on Farmers. One of the two teams which won the award was led by Dr Som Dev Sharma, Scientist, Department of Fruit Science; S K Bhardwaj, Naveen Sharma, Chuni Lal and Parmod Kumar. They presented a research paper titled “Arbuscular mycorrhizal technology-a viable tool for hi-tech nursery management in fruit crops”. Their paper was adjudged under thematic area “Innovative production technologies”. The second team, which was led by Dr Rajinder Kaur, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Madhvi Soni and S V Bhardwaj, has been awarded the Best Paper Award. Dr Kaur’s research paper entitled “Invitro propagation and conservation of Viola pilosa” was adjudged the best paper under the theme “Plant production technologies”, out of the total of 390 research papers presented during the congress. Awards were presented by Prof K V Thomas, Minister of state for Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. Dr K R Dhiman, Vice-Chancellor, congratulated the scientists for their concerted efforts and scientific temperament.
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Gautam is MNREGA ombudsman
Bilaspur, November 24 This was said by joint secretary to the government of Himachal Pradesh in an order issued last evening. Gautam had been selected by a District Selection Committee which screened a number of applicants for this post. This Ombudsman will look in to the complaints regarding all issues concerning MNREGA in the district here and settle these according to the set norms already fixed by the government.
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Stallio Indian ride flagged off
Manali, November 24 In addition to Manali, the rally would also be flagged off from three other locations in India - Goa in West, Gangtok in East and Kanyakumari in South from November 22 and 25. Participants had been selected on the basis of an online “Dream Jobs” contest announced a few months ago. Zonal manager (North) Rajeev Manchanda said the rally would see 20 bikers riding the Mahindra Stallio in a journey across the length and breadth of India, spreading the message of safe riding. The bikers had also attended a boot camp in Pune from November 15 to 18 where they were briefed on safe riding practices and sessions on motorcycle maintenance and team building, he added. The 20 bikers have been divided into four teams and will cover a total distance of approximately 24,000 km. Their journey will culminate on December 22 at Nagpur. — OC |
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Panel to monitor grants
Shimla, November 24 Headed by the chief secretary, the committee will have additional chief secretary (forest), principal secretary (revenue), principal secretary (UD), principal secretary (TD), principal secretary (MPP & power), principal secretary (home), principal secretary (PWD), principal secretary (finance), principal secretary (information technology), principal secretary (IPH), principal secretary (health), principal secretary (education), LR-cum- secretary (law), secretary (rural development) and director (treasury & accounts), Himachal Pradesh, as members. Special secretary (finance) will be the member secretary. The committee will finalise and approve the draft scheme in each concerned sector, monitor physical and financial progress vis-à-vis targets in each sector and ensure adherence to the conditions specified in respect of each grant.
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Games for special kids held
Hamirpur, November 24 SDM Hamirpur Pankaj Rai was the chief guest on this occasion and gave away prizes to the winners. Addressing the children, Rai said these children were no less than others and the authorities must provide them all such opportunities. The children selected after today’s competitions will participate in the state-level games being organised here on December 2 and 3.
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June 30 last date for admission
Shimla, November 24 Disclosing this here yesterday, Registrar, Shashi Kant Sharma, said the decision to fix June 30 as the last date for admission to undergraduate classes had been approved by the relevant bodies of the HPU also. He further said the admissions would be made on roll-on system without waiting for the results of all undergraduate classes, including Sanskrit College, and would be followed very strictly.
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Minor raped by father
Solan, November 24 The case came to light when the girl’s mother reported the matter to the police last night after which the police started searching for the alleged culprit. He was finally arrested this morning from Dharampur. —
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Man run over by tractor
Dalhousie, October 24 The deceased had been identified as Subhash Chand, a local resident. A case in this connection had been registered against the driver at police station Chowari under Sections 279 and 304-A of the IPC. — OC |
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House gutted
Kullu, November 24 The cause of the fire was not yet ascertained. The tehsildar and police authorities reached the spot to supervise the fire-fighting and rescue operations. However, No loss of life was reported. |
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The Central Government intends to add about 12,000 MD seats in various medical colleges across the country in the coming years to overcome the shortage of medical specialists.
