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No benefit for habitual construction violators
Lahaul-Spiti residents reject big hydro power projects
Chail to be developed into township: CM
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Multi-specialty surgical camps in six districts from next month
30% units in Baddi industrial area lack fire certification
‘Benami’ deals of 186 bighas out in Kasauli
PCB issues notices to 50 Kullu hotels
Angling body resents exemptions to hydro power producers
Bali lauds Centre for redrafting motor Act
Traffic jams become bane for tourism in McLeodganj
Demand to probe assets of patwaris gathers pace
CMOs directed to raid ultrasound clinics
Administration all set to give Nurpur a facelift
School to benefit of Central govt employees’ kids
Woman dies due to ‘negligence’ of staff at Nurpur hospital
Rollback hike in VAT on diesel: BJP spokesman
Grading of IPH junior technical staff sought
Crash barriers on NH-21 soon
Athletics meet held in Tanda
Plan to check increasing ATM robberies in Una
Illicit liquor seized, three booked
Mother of abandoned infant traced
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No benefit for habitual construction violators
Shimla, October 29 Even as the newly drafted document to amend the Town and Country Planning (TCP) Act, which will pave the way for regularisation of over 25,000 unauthorised structures, is being scrutinised by the Law Department, the government has decided not to entertain those who have got earlier benefit. The move can dishearten many people who had undertaken construction in the recent past in the hope of getting it regularised. The move is likely to dispel the notion that the government is soft towards those who violate building norms. “We are in the process of finalising the amendments, but anyone who has taken benefit earlier of any retention policy floated by the TCP Department will not be eligible for regularisation of violations,” said Sudhir Sharma, TCP Minister. The new TCP Bill is likely to be placed before the Cabinet shortly so that it can be tabled in the Assembly when the house meets. The TCP has brought in five retention policies and has the record of beneficiaries. Anyone who has committed a violation in the past will automatically be excluded from getting his structure regularised. The government has had a rethink on amendments in the TCP to ensure that only the genuine get benefit and not those who are habitual violators of building norms. The government is firm on its move of not allowing the benefit of this one-time concession being given to regularise unauthorised structures to buildings in the core, heritage and green areas of Shimla. Sources said compounding rates for regularising the structures had been reduced to more than half as there were representations by the public. In view of this, the government has made up its mind to reduce compounding rates so that the benefit can be availed of by all and the status of illegal structures can be made legal. The government decided to bring in an amendment in the Act the way Tamil Nadu had given one-time relief to owners of unauthorised buildings. The government issued an ordinance on September 6 so that the structures could be regularised, but later withdrew it. The government now intends to bring in a Bill to make amendments in the TCP Act. |
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Lahaul-Spiti residents reject big hydro power projects
Shimla, October 29 They expressed their views in Udaipur and Keylong before the state panel appointed by the state government for public consultation on 18 power projects proposed in the Chenab basin in the district. The residents, including members of local NGOs, rejected big power projects and favoured small projects on the Chandra, the Bhagha and the Miyar, tributaries of the Chenab. “The government is imposing power projects on the Buddhist minority community in the region and not respecting its views,” said Ringzin Haryapa, secretary of the Janjatiya Kalyan Samiti, Lahaul-Spiti and the Jispa Bandh Jankalyan Sangharsh Samiti. “The panel did not table any agenda in the meeting. We oppose big projects as those will ruin the eco-sensitive valley in the Himalayas. We want to keep the valley free of destruction caused by power projects in Kinnaur,” he said. “The Buddhist population is shrinking in the tribal belt and the valley is small in area. After the Rohtang tunnel opens opportunities for tourism, big power projects will destroy tourism. We want the valley to be protected,” he said over telephone from Keylong. Representatives and the public boycotted the meeting in Keylong and raised slogans against the district administration and the government, which facilitated the meeting, conducted by the Directorate of Energy. The meeting was attended by representatives of independent power producers which had been allotted projects. The public consultation meeting went on smoothly in Udaipur and tribals gave a mixed reaction. “We oppose the 400-MW Sheli power project as it will destroy thousands of trees and submerge “mini-Manali,” a green groove near Udaipur,” said Hari Thakur, Udaipur block president, Janjatiya Kalyan Samiti. The residents demanded that the government was hell-bent on constructing 18 power projects in one go, that would destroy the ecology of the region. “We do not oppose development, but the government should come out with a policy for power projects,” Haryapa said. Udaipur panchayat pradhan Shamsher Singh, enjoying the support of BJP leaders in the tribal belt, supported the project and urged the panel to take care of the environment. Meanwhile, the state government cancelled acquisition of private land for the Sheli project. It would be started afresh under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. Farmers in Udaipur, Madgram, Salpat and Ratoli under the Udaipur and Tindi panchayats had approached the state government and the President against forceful land acquisition under the old law, terming it unconstitutional and illegal. The Sheli Power Project Sangharsh Samiti cited that the project would destroy over 12,800 trees and 44,386 saplings on over 276 hectares of forest land. Lahaul-Spiti Deputy Commissioner Hans Raj Chauhan, who presided over the meeting, said the panel recorded public objections and suggestions and would submit its report to the state government. The final draft for the Chenab basin would be prepared after the panel consulted the public in the Pangi valley as well, he added. |
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Chail to be developed into township: CM
Solan, October 29 He said the state government would provide adequate land to the Rashtriya Military School (RMS) for undertaking expansion, but the military ground, housing the world’s highest cricket ground, would remain under the purview of the state government. He directed officials of the Health and Family Welfare Department to quicken the pace of construction of a hospital building, proceeding at snail’s pace, after it was brought to his notice. Addressing the staff and students of the RMS later on the occasion of its 89th annual day, he said competence was of utmost significance in today’s competitive world. He said students should tone up their communication skills, show single-minded devotion to studies and never lose sight of their aim as this alone could ensure success in life. The Chief Minister threw light on the history and traditions of the school, which had helped many of its students reach high echelons of service in the armed forces and other walks of life. He lauded the efforts of the school management in putting up the cultural show. He visited an exhibition displaying scientific models, woodwork and paintings made by students and gave away prizes to winners of various academic, sports and co-curricular activities. The RMS Principal, Lt Col Vineet Ohri, earlier welcomed the Chief Minister and read out the annual report. The Social Justice and Empowerment Minister, Col Dhani Ram Shandil, the Ambala sub-area GoC, Major General Amritpal Singh, and the Lahaul and Spiti MLA, Ravi Thakur, were present on the occasion. |
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Multi-specialty surgical camps in six districts from next month
Mandi, October 29 Specialists in the fields of surgery, anaesthesia, ophthalmology, gynaecology and radiology will be available at the camps, which will be held near Community Health Centres. Screening, operation and post-operation care will be provided and at least 60 surgeries — 20 general, 20 gynaecological and 20 eye operations — will be conducted at each camp. The Health Department will provide OPDs, operation theatre, labour room, wards, beds, laboratory, ECG, ultrasound and X-ray facilities, besides health officers and paramedical staff, at the nearby Community Health Centre for the camp. Medicines and equipment required after operation would be provided free of cost. In the first phase, the camps will be held in Kullu, Chamba, Kinnaur, Mandi, Sirmaur and Solan districts. The Chief Medical Officer, Mandi, Desh Raj Sharma, said the camps would be held at Barot, Katola, Nagwai, Ladbhadol, Sandhol, Balduada, Gohar, Jhanjholi, Kotli, and Karsog in the district. He said a camp would be held at Karsog from November 18 to 24, at Barot from November 24 to 30, at Nagwai from November 30 to December 6, at Ladbhadol from December 6 to 12, at Sandhol from December 12 to 18, at Balduada from December 18 to 24, at Kotli from December 24 to 30, at Gohar from January 2 to 8 next year and at Katola from January 8 to 14. |
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30% units in Baddi industrial area lack fire certification
Solan, October 29 The state government is yet to make fire certification mandatory and though industries practicing good ethics do procure certification from the Fire Department and reputed private agencies, they fail to do much whenever a massive incident takes place. Little action has been taken against an AC manufacturing unit where 10 lives were lost in 2009 due to a massive fire that erupted in the Baddi plant of the unit. The authorities had given the company a clean chit after months of inquiring into the cause. Though no lives were lost in the fire that engulfed Dabur India’s Baddi unit on Monday, the unit suffered loss worth Rs 30 crore. The state government had constituted a committee in 2009 to study the preparedness of various industrial units in the BBN area after the fire incident at the AC unit. This committee, headed by the CEO of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh Development Authority, had inspected industrial units and declared nearly 30 per cent of them unsafe. The committee, which had inspected 720 units, had also pointed out that another 5 per cent units were highly vulnerable as they lacked even the basic fire-safety equipment. While blaming the units for adopting a casual approach, the committee had concluded that a vast majority of units examined had failed to get a permanent fire-safety certificate and continued to run on provisional certificates. The report had recommended filling of all pending posts in the fire department, besides making available more staff and equipment in view of the large industrial expansion after the 2003 industrial package. The recommendations, however, have remained on paper and nothing much has changed since then, with fire incidents continuing to cause losses worth crores every year. |
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Women to get upper hand in agricultural, allied sectors
Kangra, October 29 CORD utilises an integrated, holistic approach especially focused on integrated rural development in 550 villages of this
district. Senior programme manager, CORD, Narender Paul said here today: “The MKSP will enable household food security and strengthen the role and recognition of women in farming which has not been recognised and harnessed so far.” He said the project would empower 2,500 marginal and small women farmers. Paul said last week CORD conducted 50 trainings-cum-demonstration camps with 597 women farmers under first year of the programme on feed preparation for milch animals to improve milk productivity. National director, CORD, Padamshri Kshama Metre, said the process of roping in women was important because they were the backbone of the society and in Himachal Pradesh alone, women performed 60-80 per cent farm-related activities, yet they remained heavily marginalised socially, economically and politically. She said CORD’s vision and spirit of MKSP to make women farmers a recognised and visible entity would be achieved significantly through the project interventions, institutional architect and mechanisms. She said all 2,500 women farmers, selected from CORD facilitated Women Groups would be organised into 120-130 women farmers’ groups to collectively institutionalise themselves to become forceful forum for recognition and empowerment; not only in the field of production but to enter the market as potential empowered entrepreneur. The programme is working in convergence, active support and guidance of the HP State Rural Livelihood Mission (HPSRLM), Agriculture Department, Animal Husbandry, Agriculture University, District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), panchyats and various other line departments in the district. |
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‘Benami’ deals of 186 bighas out in Kasauli
Solan, October 29 In another case, the SIU registered a case of impersonation, cheating and criminal conspiracy under Sections 419, 420, 205 and 120-B of the IPC against one Chandigarh resident, Sukhwinder Singh, who had used an agriculturist certificate procured in the name of his namesake residing in Rajgarh to buy 51.2 bighas. The SIU has registered a case of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy under Sections 420, 468, 471, 120-B of the IPC and further investigations were under way, said Superintendent of Police Ramesh Chajta. According to the inquires made by the SIU team, it was learnt that one Devi Chand, a resident of Basola village in Kalka, had bought 20.1 bigha land in Shavla revenue village of Kasauli tehsil in 2006 on the basis of a fake agriculturist certificate. A copy of the sale deed — procured from the office of tehsildar Kasauli — revealed that Devi Chand and a Parwanoo resident Vinod Kumar had bought a 41 bigha land which was divided equally between them for about Rs 8 lakh. The land was bought on the basis of an agriculturist certificate procured by Devi Chand from Katola revenue village in Juna sub-tehsil of Shimla district. This certificate was not only signed by the
patwari but attested by the naib tehsildar at Janerghat. In it, it is stated that Devi Chand was a resident of the said revenue village. Inquires, however, revealed that no such
person resides in the village and hence, it was a fake certificate. Devi Chand used this fake certificate to buy 135.3 bighas, including a house, at Neri Khurd in Kasauli tehsil which were all ‘benami’ transactions. The SIU is also investigating the role of revenue officials as the fake certificates bear the stamp and signatures of the officials. In the second case, it was learnt that one Sukhwinder Singh, a resident of Rajgarh, had bought 1.1 bigha land in Kasauli tehsil in 2006 — with registration number 577 — from one Sukhpal Singh for Rs 2 lakh. This land was bought on the basis of an agriculturist certificate which showed Sukhwinder Singh as a resident of Shillangi village in Rajgarh tehsil of Sirmaur district. As much as 51.2 bighas had been bought on the basis of this certificate. The SIU found that the Sukhwinder Singh in whose name this certificate was issued was a poor person residing in Bhajo village in Solan who had no means to buy any land. While this is not the first case where fake certificates have been used to buy land by outsiders, it has also exposed loopholes in the system where such land deals have been successfully executed by revenue authorities. |
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PCB issues notices to 50 Kullu hotels
Kullu, October 29 Show-cause notices have also been issued to 20 hotels along the Beas to explain the measures adopted by them for waste management. Besides, 10 hotel owners have been issued notices after samples from the sewage treatment plants of their hotels failed or had drawbacks. Authorities of the PCB further confirmed that orders had been passed to disconnect the electricity supply to a hotel in Prini near Manali due to non-compliance to the specified parameters. The authorities stated that those polluting the Beas would not be spared and strict action would be taken as per the directions of the High Court. Abhishek Rai, an environmentalist, said while various norms had been laid to check the pollution control measures adopted by commercial entrepreneurs, a large number of commercial complexes, such as restaurants and fun-parks along the Beas, were lacking sewage treatment plants and this was continuing unchecked. He added that a large number of domestic households along the river were still without sewerage connection, thereby directly disposing the sewage and municipal waste into the Beas. A few households in the town used electric motors to dump sewage waste from their septic tanks into the municipal drains, not only causing public nuisance but also creating health hazards, Rai said. Environmentalists rued that despite the orders of the National Green Tribunal and the High Court, the Beas was being polluted constantly. Elders of the region said the Beas was considered holy and it had been never put to such unruly treatment earlier. While the spiritual and religious beliefs of the masses protected the river from being polluted, the experts opine that besides strict enforcement of laws, awareness of the masses was must to curtail pollution in the Beas. |
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Angling body resents exemptions to hydro power producers
Palampur, October 29 Addressing mediapersons here yesterday, KB Ralhan, secretary general, HP Angling Association, who has been associated with the conservation and development of fisheries for over 50 years, said if the state wanted to remain a frontline state in respect to cold water fish biodiversity, the government should rollback exemption from no-objection certificate to the hydro power projects. He said considering that the state intended to harness 1,100 MW of energy through construction of more than 400 small hydro power projects, their impacts on smaller streams would be substantial. “Some of the issues other than undermining the livelihood of fishermen and sport angling tourist attraction to the state for promotion of eco tourism are heavy deforestation, impact on local irrigation and water security, landslides due to blasting of rocks, absence of safety monitoring and no assessment of cumulative impacts of cascading effects on riverine ecology,” Ralhan said. |
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Bali lauds Centre for redrafting motor Act
Shimla, October 29 The meeting was chaired by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari. Bali raised several concerns and urged the Centre to consider the suggestions of the state. He demanded that Chapter-6 should not be removed from the Act as consumption of transport services was essential for certain categories and overall interest of development and poverty alleviation. He said no private operator would ever come forward to provide free travel facility to schoolchildren to reduce dropout rate, providing concessional travel facilities to college and university students and to other weaker sections of the society. “The drastic change of removing Chapter-6 from the main Act may not be in the interest of special-category states like Himachal Pradesh,” he said. Bali said: “There is a role for PSUs in transport as it has been experienced that private sector mostly operates in urban areas, but in interior areas, where passenger traffic is low, there are no takers.” He said special provisions relating to state road transport undertakings have been removed by creating the Omni bus provision of passenger transport vehicles (clubbing stage carriage and contract carriage vehicles), which might be difficult to implement. He said it was also drastic to wipe out the provision containing conductor’s licence in the old Act as it would also remove the need and position of the conductor in the transport operation. Bali said the jurisdiction of stage carriage and contract carriage operation should be clearly defined otherwise it could create havoc because if contract carriage vehicles entered the operation of stage carriage vehicles, the justification of having stage carriage vehicles might be totally eliminated. Reacting on the removal of qualification of drivers from the draft bill, he said it also had serious implications in terms of road safety as with the introduction of latest technological developments in automobile manufacturing, the skill requirement of a driver especially of a transport vehicle had increased manifold. Bali said multiple factors were involved in an accident such as driver, vehicle, road, passenger and weather conditions. He said there was a need to make a clear provision mandating revision of tariff rates on increase of diesel and other input prices. Road management should be brought within the purview of the Motor Vehicles Act as it was totally out of any legislative control, he added. |
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Traffic jams become bane for tourism in McLeodganj
Dharamsala, October 29 The contractor blocked one of the two lanes by parking trippers carrying material for the construction. Generally, most private and HRTC buses that transverse from McLeodganj to Delhi ply on this road at this very time. The authorities should have provided an alternate route to the buses. Or the passengers should have been brought down to Dharamsala in smaller vehicles. Extra traffic personnel should have been posted to tackle the situation. However, there were just two of them to deal with the 2-km jam. Sheena, a tourist from Israel, who remained trapped in the jam said “In case I get late, I might miss the flight,” she said. BK Sharma, another tourist from Punjab, said the situation of traffic was such these days that it was unsafe to bring vehicles here. The state government must do something to tackle the problem or else the beautiful town would lose its charm, he added. The traffic jams are becoming a bane for tourism here. An effective and long-term traffic plan for Dharamsala is the solution to the increasing vehicular traffic in McLeodganj and its surrounding areas. Creating more parking places was another solution. Prabhat Chaudhary, district tourism officer, said the government had planned two parking places in Dharamsala. A multi-storey parking would be created near the district tourism office. It would be brought up by the Tourism Department. The other parking would be created near the deputy commissioner’s office. It was likely to be created on Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis. |
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Demand to probe assets of patwaris gathers pace
Shimla, October 29 The forum asked the government to deal with patwaris and kanungos strictly as they still were missing offices under the ruse of strike causing loss to the public. Residents here charged that certain patwaris and kanungos have turned into property dealers for builder mafias. There are nearly 25-30 patwar circles in the district without patwaris. Residents seeking tatimas, jamavandis and
other revenue documents from different patwar khanas said that hey had to run from pillar-to-post tracking elusive patwaris and kanungos. “But the government has always remained in deep slumber as patwaris
and kanungos have been on strike on this plea or the other and are not found at the offices, they resented. Forum president Deshbandhu Sood said Vigilance or CBI probe should be conducted into the assets acquired by patwaris over the years. “The ongoing strike has hit common public hard, but the government has not taken any action in this regard so far,” he said. Those not discharging their duties should be suspended as the common man was the one suffering, the forum demanded. It is not only city residents who are suffering, but there are no patwaris available in remote
villages of the district as well. “There is no patwari in Dewat and Shantha in Tehsil Chopal in the district and people are suffering,” a villager said. They cannot bring them for demarcation and get revenue papers as government claims that revenue records have been put online, which is a media stunt, residents said. On the other hand Patwari and Kanungos Sangh said they get Rs 75 to visit a site for demarcation and pay electricity bill mainly for additional charges assigned to them. The forum charged that certain tehsildars and revenue officers were in league with benami land mafias which should be probed into by the CBI. There are cases where non-agriculturalists were made agriculturalists
by issuing fake agricultural certificates, the forum charged. Certain officials violate Section 118 under the name of different organisations, Sood said.
All such organisations should be probed and action be taken against such offenders. Shimla deputy commissioner Dinesh Malhotra said they have called off the strike as the government was considering their demands. “Patwaris assigned additional charge of patwar circles are not attending the office. But no complaint regarding certain patwaris or kanungos acting as property dealers have come to the notice so far,” he said. |
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CMOs directed to raid ultrasound clinics
Shimla, October 29 Presiding over a meeting of the state consultative committee, constituted under the PC and PNDT Act, 1994, here today, Dr Rameshwar, who is president, PC and PNDT Committee, said there were 261 genetic clinics having the facility of ultrasound in the state. The CMOs should inspect these clinics at least four times a year, besides holding meetings of district consultative committees regularly, he added. He said a provision had been made to provide Rs 5 lakh to each block for giving best performance in the child sex ratio
in the district. The amount was being provided after the birth of one and two daughters under Indira Gandhi Balika Suraksha Yojna under which Rs 69 lakh was distributed last year. The meeting was attended by CMOs and senior medical officers. |
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Administration all set to give Nurpur a facelift
Nurpur, October 29 It was decided to keep 12 more dustbins in the markets and streets so that shopkeepers and residents don’t throw garbage in the open. Beopar mandals were asked to ensure that every shopkeeper kept a dustbin at his establishment. People littering public places would be taken to task by penalising action against them by authorities. To improve traffic management in the town, day-long parking of two or three wheelers has been restricted at the market sides and owners would be challaned for violating it. The MC was directed to catch stray or pet animals roaming in the town and release them by imposing a penalty on their owners. In case the owners fail to pay, the MC would auction their cattle. |
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School to benefit of Central govt employees’ kids
Una, October 29 In an official press release issued here today, Industries Minister Mukesh Agnihoitri said the school was sanctioned for Saloh by the UPA government during the BJP rule in the state, but the then state government had shifted the location to Dumkhar in Kutlehar segment, where there was no suitable land for the school building. The institution still runs in a temporary structure. Agnihotri said he made efforts to get a new Central school sanctioned by the Centre for Una district and the Cabinet nod for lease deed at a token amount of Re 1 was also accorded by the Cabinet on Tuesday. He said the building of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, which is presently temporarily functional from Hamirpur district, is also proposed to come up in Saloh village. The minister said the Cabinet had given its nod to name the Government Senior Secondary School, Hiran, after well-known Sikh warrior Baba Banda Singh Bahadur, who hailed from this region and fought the Mughals. A Gurudwara in the name of the Sikh General already exists in the village. Baba Bahadur, also known as Banda Bairagi, had also dared to issue currency coins in the name of Guru Gobind Singh during the Mughal period. |
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Woman dies due to ‘negligence’ of staff at Nurpur hospital
Nurpur, October 29 The deceased Ritu (29), wife of Sandeep Kumar of Harsar (Jawali), died
suddenly with her unborn child. The police rushed to the hospital and defused the tension. The deceased got married in December last year and the doctors had informed her that she would have a normal delivery. Her husband alleged that she died due to
the negligence of the nursing staff on duty last evening and even humiliated him by passing unsavoury remarks,
when he called them after his wife’s condition deteriorated. “Her condition deteriorated suddenly after she was given injections,
but the nursing staff took it lightly and didn’t listen to my requests and finally when my wife vomited, she became very serious. The staff attending on her called up the gynaecologist who tried
to save her but in vain,” he said. He said had the nursing staff called the doctor
in time, his wife could have survived. The family of the deceased have demanded action against the nursing staff and impartial inquiry into the circumstances that led to her death. The body was handed over to the family after postmortem today. Dr Amodh Singh, the gynaecologist at the hospital, said the deceased
was in her advanced stage of pregnancy and she had three hours left for her delivery. Dr Neerja Gupta, hospital in charge and block medical officer, denied allegation of negligence on the part of the staff
and said all efforts were made to save the patient, but in vain. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Manoj Joshi said a case
under Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPc) had been registered and further action would be taken after procuring the postmortem report. |
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Rollback hike in VAT on diesel: BJP spokesman
Una, October 29 The BJP spokesman said while the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre was trying to reduce inflation by cutting down rates of petroleum products, the state was reversing the efforts.The rise in rates of diesel would affect travel, transportation and agriculture, including irrigation, making these sectors dearer, he added. Parveen said the state government was also contemplating a hike in tax on contract carriage vehicles, which would hit small-time travel operators. While the cost of sugar issued by the Center was Rs 13.50 per kg, the state was charging Rs 19 per kg from consumers of the Public Distribution System in the state. The quota of kerosene oil had been reduced and the prices of pulses had been hiked, he charged. Reiterating the BJP’s demand to roll back the increase in VAT on diesel and scale down the price of sugar, Sharma said if no action was taken within a reasonable time, the BJP would launch a state-wide agitation.
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Grading of IPH junior technical staff sought
Una, October 29 Rana said since the department had failed to do the grading process after 1996, these employees had been denied a number of financial benefits. He said there was no seniority list of these employees with the department. Trivedi assured the office-bearers that the process had been initiated and would be completed by January 15 next year, for the Una IPH Circle. He said the department was working on the issue of promotion of employees from pump operator to foreman after the seniority list was
finalised.
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Mandi, October 29 Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Pankaj Rai, who presided over the meeting, said nearly 95 per cent of accidents take place due to human errors. He said crash barriers would be installed at accident-prone areas between Mandi town and Jhiri in the district. Keeping in view the safety of motorists, officials have been directed to remove roadside vendors from Pandove and Aut, he said. Rai said awareness camps on road safety would be organised, especially for the youth and managements of the schools and colleges had been asked to hold awareness programmes for students. He also urged motorists to follow traffic rules so that the number of accidents could be reduced. — TNS
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Athletics meet held in Tanda
Kangra, October 29 Dr Munish Saroch, spokesman of the DRPGMC, said 200 boys and girls participated in the 4th annual athletic meet arranged on the ground near the banks of the Banner on the college campus. Students of the college developed the ground and levelled it for months under a self-help programme. Students participated in the 100 m and 200 m races, long jump, javelin throw and tug-of-war, , Munish added. More than 100 students got prizes on the occasion. Arun Gautam and Roha Shad, both second-year students, were adjudged best male and female athletes, respectively. Principal Anil Chauhan presented prizes to the winners and appreciated their efforts for making the riverbank a playground.
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Plan to check increasing ATM robberies in Una
Una, October 29 At the meeting it was decided that banks would reduce the amount of cash in ATMs during night, especially the ones located at insecure or remote locations. It was also decided that the amount of cash in ATMs should be known only to the officials concerned. Further, all banks have been directed to ensure that the ATM doors open only by inserting ATM cards. The SP said police patrol parties would henceforth keep a strict vigil on cars and jeeps carrying gas cylinders used for steel cutting. He directed police station in-charges to ensure that night patrol parties planned their routes in such a manner that maximum number of ATMs were covered. Further, patrol parties would make a physical check of every ATM on their route during the night, he added. Awareness drives would be conducted for local residents living near ATMs, regarding the modus operandi of robbers.
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Illicit liquor seized, three booked
Mandi, October 29 In another case, the Sarkaghat police seized 3,000 ml of country-made liquor from Parveen Kumar of Rahmeda during patrol yesterday and 750 ml of illicit liquor from Kadar Singh of Madap in Dharampur tehsil. The police said the offenders were booked under the HP Excise Act and further investigations were on.
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Mother of abandoned infant traced
Kullu, October 29 The police had registered a case and carried out the medical examinations of the suspected mothers. Both the mother and child were admitted to separate hospitals and were reported to be in a healthy condition. The police believed that an unwed mother in her teens deserted the newborn to avoid the social stigma.
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