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Homemakers to get their due in Census ’11
Landslide below Company Garden reaches alarming levels
SAF Winter Games |
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State govt ready to provide details, says minister
A pathetic scene of the old Ganga canal at Kaliyar. Photo: Navreet Milton
‘Let Girls Be Born’ programme launched
Sectt down Health
A batsman attempts a defensive shot during a match in the 60th District Cricket League played at Survey of India ground in Dehradun on Saturday. A Tribune photograph
RIMC cadets entertain Raphael kids
Shivalik scrape past Yankies
81 students selected through campus placement fair
Sai School nurses take oath
Students take oath at the Sai Institute of Nursing in Dehradun on Saturday.
A Tribune photograph
Students protest against renaming UTU after Rajju Bhaiya
Design training programme to be launched
CM inspects Doon Hospital
10-day trade fair begins
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Homemakers to get their due in Census ’11
Dehradun, February 5 The questions on categories of economic activities are expected to touch upon the economic contribution made by women even while staying at home. “Certain features have been added to the census. For the first time, an economic activity like weaving, tailoring etc undertaken by a woman will be categorised. “Plus, there is a separate slot for categorisation of the third gender in the ‘others’ column. Disability too will be taken into account as categorised in the Disability Act of 1997,” said Snehlata Agarwal, Director, Directorate of Census Operations, Uttarakhand, while speaking with mediapersons today. For the population enumeration, 29 questions have been devised on demographic, marital status, cultural, literacy, economic, migration, travel to place of work and fertility parameters. A separate code for separated and divorced has also been added. “The enumerators have been rigorously trained to include each and every aspect in the census. We appeal to the people to cooperate with them. The information recorded by the enumerator will be confidential and in no way can be challenged in the court of law,” said Agarwal. The state’s migrating population, including pavement dwellers, will be counted on the night of February 28 at railway stations, terminals, pavements etc. Population enumeration of Census 2011 will begin on February 9 and continue till February 28 in Uttarakhand barring 150 villages and three towns of Chamoli, Pithoragarh, Rudraprayag and Uttarkashi districts. At these snow-bound areas, the second phase of Census is already complete. Deputy Director Census Mohammed Khan said that Census 2011 has introduced initiatives to sensitise school students about census operations. A toll-free number and services of a call centre have been introduced for the grievances of the public. The base for the second phase of the census had been prepared during houselisting in the first phase of the exercise in May-June 2010.
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Landslide below Company Garden reaches alarming levels
Mussoorie, February 5
According to the residents, the situation has worsened since the natural calamity that had occurred during monsoon last year, leading to the caving in of the area and damaging of trees. In addition to that, the main pipeline that supplies drinking water to various institutions of prominence, such as the Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), remained shut for several days. Company Garden Resident Welfare Association secretary CP Saklani said the residents and the tourists were sitting on a ticking time bomb that could explode any moment literally. Elaborating further, he said the water flowing underneath was loosening the soil and increasing the pace of the slide. Association president Surendar Rana, speaking to The Tribune, said this land erosion was on for the past three years. Earlier, the pace was slow, but after last year’s damage, the slide had increased manifold. The drinking water pipeline had to be shifted as most of it had caved in under the debris from fallen boulders. But the landslide was barely 1 foot away from the pipeline that had been shifted twice in the past three years, leading to a financial loss of more than Rs 50 lakh to the Jal Sansthan. Rana, showing the letter written to the Director, Rajaji National Park, on September 5, 2008, said officials were apprised of the situation in a timely manner. He further said in the letter dated July 23, 2007, the whole situation was mentioned in detail. Another letter in this regard was written on August 18, 2008, when the damage reoccurred in the same area, citing the fear of the residents due to this landslide. According to Jal Sansthan AE PB Bhatt, they shifted the pipeline twice in the past couple of year,s but the whole area remained under danger due to the continuous landslide. He said if no remedial action was taken soon, the whole area of the Company and Logi Gardens could cave in. When contacted, Rajaji Park officials in Mussoorie said a team of the Soil Conservation Department had completed the survey and suggested several remedial measures for the treatment of the area. The Company Garden area now had been transferred under the control of Mussoorie Forest Division, hence, further action would be initiated at the Mussoorie-level DFO, added the park officials. The DFO, Mussoorie, was not available for comments as he was busy with the preparation for the Forest Fire Safety Week to be held at Bungalow ki Kandi Village tomorrow.
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Congress continues to demand CBI probe
Tribune News Service
Addressing a press conference at his Vidhan Sabha office today, Harak Singh Rawat alleged that corruption on a mammoth scale had taken place in the recent concluded SAF Winter Games in Uttarakhand. “The SAF Games involve a scam of no less than Rs 40-50 crore. This needs to be probed by the CBI,” Harak Singh Rawat asserted. Rawat pointed out that the Games organising committee has stated that Rs 7 crore was spent on the new chair lift at Auli, but in fact, the old chair lift, which was inaugurated in 1994 by the then UP Governor Romesh Bhandari, has been renovated and re-inaugurated. “The Uttarakhand Tourism Minister inaugurated the old chair lift and misled one and all,”he said. The Congress leader alleged that Australian grass at the cost of Rs 2 crore was to be grown for the Games, but the organising committee replaced it with local grass grown by the ITBP. “Even the snow-making machine, purchased at a staggering cost of Rs 6.5 crore was a second-hand machine with its manufacturing date being in the 1970s. The machine is not even fit to prepare snow,” he charged. Referring to another useless expenditure, he said that Rs 5 crore was supposed to have been spent on purchasing ropes that were never put to use. “The rope still lies buried under the snow,” claimed Rawat. He said that he would be in Delhi on February 11 and would take up the matter with the high command. He also questioned the logic behind the renaming of the Nanda Devi slope at Auli as Pangtey slope. “As the SAF Winter Games was purely funded by the Centre, the Central government needs to check where its money was spent. The income tax raids at the organising committee office and at the Raipur venue in Dehradun point to a bigger scam,” said Rawat. Meanwhile, Uttarakhand Congress chief Yashpal Arya, a day earlier, had announced massive protests in wake of the scam. He had even charged that the Uttarakhand Chief Minister was instrumental in wasting hefty amounts in staging useless cultural evening programmes during the Games despite that fact that he headed the Games organising committee at its chairman.
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State govt ready to provide details, says minister
Dehradun, February 5 Interacting with
mediapersons, Khazan Das said while CWG was a Rs 70,000-crore affair, the SAF Winter Games were held at a paltry cost of Rs 118 crore. “Even for this small amount, the state government is ready to provide all details of the expenditure,” he said. He said the Congress was shocked to see the SAF Games emerge as a major success and was now resorting to misleading statements. Das said that the Leader of Opposition must not make allegations without verification of facts. Joining him, senior BJP leader and former MLA Lakhi Ram Joshi said the Congress should first look into the
Centre-led CWG scam rather than point a finger of accusation at the BJP. He said that if Opposition leaders did not stop making irresponsible statements, the BJP would start an ‘Expose Congress Campaign’ in the state. Joshi even charged Opposition leaders of attempting character assassination of BJP leaders in the Pithoragarh zila panchayat chief Ranjana’s no-confidence motion episode. He said Ranjana has disowned her earlier statement that BJP leaders had exploited her sexually. He also accused the Centre of doing little for disaster relief in Uttarakhand. “The Centre has provided just Rs 500 crore as assistance to the state which is inadequate,” he said.
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Fisheries Dept to give facelift to old Ganga canal in Roorkee
Dehradun, February 5 The Fisheries Department had sought a lease from the Irrigation Department to use the 9-km stretch of the canal from Dhanouri-Kaliyar to
Bajuheri, near Roorkee. “The Fisheries Department has asked for the canal for fish farming and their proposal has been passed by the government. An amount of Rs 88 lakh is expected annually from fish farming that will be done in the canal and they will pay us 20 per cent of this sum as royalty,” said executive engineer (Irrigation) DD
Dalakoti. Environmentalists feel that the sewage discharge into the canal had badly destroyed fragments of the aquatic life. “I wonder how the state government is ignorant about the problem, while it has been spending crores in the name of the Sparsh Ganga movement in the same district,” asked faculty and expert of sewerage science,
IIT-Roorkee, Dr Absar Ahmad Kazmi. The 150-year-old canal had been in a bad shape owing to lack of maintenance and repairs. It was the Bengal Engineer Group and Centre (BEG-an Army outfit),
Roorkee, that started water sports activities in the 1990s to train their jawans for the games of kayaking, rowing and canoeing. The stretch of the old Ganga canal that starts from Kaliyar to Roorkee is a stretch that is known for its scenic beauty and construction engineering on how the British constructed the canal in trying conditions.
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‘Let Girls Be Born’ programme launched
Dehradun, February 5 Around 140 gram panchayats of Haridwar (Bhadarabad), Dehradun (Chakrata), Uttarkashi, Tehri, Chamoli, Almora and Nainital will be covered under the programme. “Along with sensitisation of villagers, emphasis will be laid on urging them to ensure that births and deaths of children are properly recorded. The focal theme will be sensitisation, motivation and activation plan at the grassroots level,” said state president of Plan India Suresh Balodi. Dr Nirmala Pandey of Chief Functionary of Vatsalya (NGO) said the functioning of Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Technique (PCPNDT) committees, too, should be strengthened. The economic boom has ensured the installation of diagnostic machines that have resulted in the misuse of the medical technology”. Gajender Nautiyal of SBMA said before the formal launch of the programme, a sensitisation campaign was launched. “We are beginning from the grassroots level and recognise that the gram pradhans can play a pivotal role,” said Nautiyal.
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Sectt down Health
Dehradun, February 5 The winning team set a target of 171 runs for nine wickets in 32.1 overs after choosing to bat first. The innings of Secretariat revolved around Bhupender (43) while Vikash chipped in with 21 runs. Nitin, Sumit and Manoj took two wickets each for Health. In reply, Health could score only 141 runs before getting all out. Sumit (36) and Vinod (26) were the main scorers, but couldn’t change the fate of the game. Rajeev Negi performed wonderfully for the winning team bagging four wickets. Lalit Joshi took two wickets. TH Khan and Rakesh Joshi also got a wicket each. 4-wkt win for Aryan
Aryan School beat Guru Nanak Academy (GNA) by four wickets during the Junior Boys Council School Cricket Tournament at Raja Ram Mohan Roy School here today. Aryan School won the toss and decided to bowl first. GNA scored 116 runs in 20 overs losing nine wickets. Vishal (38), Ajay (22) and Praveen (17) were the principal scorers. Aman got the maximum (three) wickets for Aryan while Devesh and Sanyam
took two wickets each. Ankush also pocketed a wicket. Batting second, Aryan achieved the target in 19.4 overs at the loss of six wickets. Aman (37) and Ankush (27) did the job for Aryan. Praveen, S Yadav and Pratush got a wicket each for GNA. No match will be played tomorrow. The next match will start on Monday at 1 pm.
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RIMC cadets entertain Raphael kids
Dehradun, February 5 Cadet Tuhin Goswami, cadet Harsh Arora and cadet Ram Sharma gave solo performances. They were accompanied by cadet B Vanmalsawma, cadet Lalrem Dika and cadet Stephen (guitar), cadet Shibashish (tabla), cadet Sanyam (drums), cadet Anmol Rawat (piano), cadet Vishrut (santoor) and cadet Geetansh Ahluwalia (congo). The freshers formed a choir and sang “Taare Zameen Par”. This was followed by a mime by cadet S Dahiya, cadet A Chettri and cadet Sourav Singh. At the end was a dance performance. Brigadier Sinha (retd) appreciated the cadets for their gesture. The cadets then interacted with the children of Raphael. Dignitaries present on the occasion were Priyo Lal, Anupma Thapliyal and Col Pankaj K Kumaria, Commandant, RIMC. The programme was coordinated by CS Vishwakarma and PN Naik.
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Shivalik scrape past Yankies
Dehradun, February 5 The two sides put up a great competition. Rahul (14th) of Yankies netted the first goal and Sushant (31st) of Shivalik equalised before the first half ended. No goal came in the next half despite some good goal attempts and the match ended 1-1 in stipulated time. This took the match to the tie-breaker. The Shivalik team won 6-5 at the end of this round. Sumit, Sushant, Sanjay, Krishna and Naveen scored for the winning squad while Rahul, Rahul Kandari, Sushant Badoni and Piyush scored for Yankies. Earlier in the first match, Garhwal Boys beat XI Star 2-1. Akash Thapa (40th) and Abhishek (52nd) scored for Garhwal Boys. Dhir Singh (27th) was the only scorer for the losing side.
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81 students selected through campus placement fair
Dehradun, February 5 About 49 from DBS, 12 from ICFAI University, three from Graphic Era University, four from IIT Roorkee, 12 from Beehive College and others from Nimbus Academy, Gurukul Kangri University and Rajasthan University sailed through the interviews held at the campus. According to chairman, Doon Business School, Mohit Aggarwal, the purpose of organising a placement fair and calling multiple companies on the same was providing a wider choice to students in the fields of their interest and to create a sense of competition among the companies to pick talented students. Director, Corporate Affairs, Sunil Chaudhary said, “Most of the students of Doon Business School get more than one or more jobs at the end of the third semester due to the continuous efforts of the placement committee for the students”.
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Sai School nurses take oath
Dehradun, February 5 The students of ANM and GNM (nursing courses) took pledge to abide by their responsibilities and duties towards their college and society. The vow was taken in the presence of Harish Arora, Chairperson of the institute, Rani Arora, Vice-Chairperson, and other staff members of the institution.
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Students protest against renaming UTU after Rajju Bhaiya
Dehradun, February 5 The protestors shouted slogans and burnt the effigy of the state government to press their demand of not renaming Uttarakhand Technical University (UTU) after the name of Rajender Singh, alias Rajju Bhaiya, former Sarsanghchalak of the RSS. The protestors accused the state government of promoting the RSS, that had the image of spreading terrorism in India. They demanded that UTU be renamed after Nagendra Saklani.
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Design training programme to be launched
Dehradun, February 5 The programme will be launched in four clusters comprising pharmaceutical, packaging industries, auto bulbs and light engineering. President of IAU Pankaj Gupta and coordinator of NID Gayatri Singh signed a memorandum at a meeting held today. The programme will focus on developing the business strategy and strengthening product by emphasis on design.
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CM inspects Doon Hospital
Dehradun, February 5 “Besides inspecting the hospital, the CM met patients undergoing treatment at the hospital and told the authorities that their bills were being taken care of, as they fell in the BPL category,” said CMS of the Doon Hospital Dr BC
Pathak.
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10-day trade fair begins
Dehradun, February 5 A variety of handicrafts, handlooms, FMCG products, electronics, home appliances, furniture, luxurious home needs, garment, jewellery, educational institutes and kitchen accessories and consumer goods have been displayed at the fair. Exhibitors from Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal and other states of India are participating in the trade fair.
— TNS
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