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E-governance scheme launched Scheme to end water
shortage Gastroenteritis cases
rise Red Cross Day
celebrated Windstorm hits
region Action ordered against absentee
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| Child charred to death Dharamsala, May 8 A nine-year-old boy, Pankaj, was charred to death when the house in which he was residing caught fire, in Airla village, near Palampur, last night.
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E-governance scheme launched Hamirpur, May 8 He also inaugurated a fully computerised railway booking counter at the main bus stand here. People of the district will be able to get their seats reserved from here from today onward. This office has been connected with New Delhi through a computer network and the reservation of seats and their status will be made available within minutes, according to official sources. Professor Dhumal sent a message from the Tounidevi information centre to Hamirpur through Internet which was immediately received. Ms Anuradha Thakur, Chairperson of the Lokmitra Society, gave details of the scheme to the Chief Minister and other participants. This yojna is the Himachal version of the Gyandoot Pilot Project already going on in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh. Under the Nabard sponsored project, 25 information centres have been opened in various parts of the district. People of the district, especially those living in interiors, will be able to send their complaints by paying a nominal fee to the owner of the centre. The person managing the centre will send the complaint to the district headquarters. The reply will be given to the complainant within one week. Through this yojna, market rates of vegetables, fruits and other items will also be made available at all information centres. Moreover, people will also be able to send and receive information regarding their land records, income certificates, caste certificates and other official documents. The National Informatics Centre of the state has supplied necessary software and hardware to the owners of the centres and they have also been trained to operate computers. Two main servers and four terminals have been set up in the office of the Deputy Commissioner, nodal agency in the project. Daily mail coming from various information centres will be screened and then sent to respective offices. The reply received will again be sent through Internet to the owners of the centres concerned. Prof Dhumal said Hamirpur was the first district in the state to have this facility. More centres would be opened in the district on the basis of the reports of the success of the scheme, he said. He said efforts would also be made to make the state a leader in the field of info-technology network. He said info-tech parks were being opened in the state where hardware and software would be prepared by the youth of state. Mr Suresh Chandel, MP, Ms Urmila Thakur, Parliamentary Secretary and other BJP leaders and senior officers were also present on the occasion. |
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Scheme to end water
shortage Hamirpur, May 8 Addressing a public meeting at Pahunch village of the district yesterday, he said another scheme at a cost of Rs 21.20 crore had also been submitted to the Government of India under Accelerated Water Supply Programme for Hamirpur and Barsar divisions of the district. The scheme was approved and Rs 4.60 crore would be spent under the scheme during the current fiscal year. The Chief Minister said as many as 42 hand pumps had been installed in Bamsan area of the district at a cost of Rs 39 lakh in order to end water shortage in the area. He lashed out at the previous Congress government for providing less funds to the district under the road and its allied activities network. He said Rs 29.67 crore had been spent in the district on roads for the past three years of the BJP government. He also dedicated to the people a road link between Purli to Jattan di Dhar and added that more such inner roads would be constructed in such areas for the benefit of the masses. |
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Gastroenteritis cases
rise Dharamsala, May 8 Reports from other areas of the district too indicate that patients with gastroenteritis and diarrhoea are making a beeline to the Civil Hospitals at Kangra, Dehra and Nurpur. While acute cases of gastroenteritis are being admitted to the hospital, others are being discharged after treatment. During the past one week alone, as many 39 cases of gastroenteritis were reported in Medical College Hospital here. The Deputy Medical Superintendent, Dr Shashi Mahajan, said out of this seven were still admitted in the hospital. She said the situation was not alarming as all these were scattered cases, coming from different parts of the district. The situation in the Kangra area was worst, as about 10 gastroenteritis cases were being reported in the Civil Hospital, Kangra, daily. According to hospital sources, during the past 10 days the number of gastro patients, who had to be admitted to the hospital was 13. There was an outbreak of gastroenteritis in Jated village, near Daulatpur in the Kangra subdivision last month. According to Dr S.N. Sharma, acting Chief Medical Officer, 60 cases of gastroenteritis were reported in the village on the very first day. A medical team was rushed to the village immediately, to control the situation. Dr Sharma, said sporadic cases of gastroenteritis being reported in the hospital during summers was a seasonal trend. He said being a water-borne disease, it was mainly due to consumption of contaminated water, that people were falling sick. “On our part we are distributing chlorine tablets to people, but cleaning up of the traditional water sources and piped water is the job of the IPH Department,” he added. With acute drinking water shortage in certain villages, people are drawing water from traditional sources like “bowris”, where the water is contaminated. People, however, complain of contaminated water supplied by the IPH Department. Residents of Dharamsala town too complain of this problem. Even at Civil Hospital, Dehra, two to three cases of gastroenteritis are being admitted practically every day. However, the number of out-door patients, is much higher. |
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Red Cross Day
celebrated Shimla, May 8 The Governor also inaugurated a contribution drive for the Red Cross fund by making personal contribution to it. He exhorted people to make liberal contribution towards this fund as money so collected was used for the welfare of the needy. He asked people to work for mitigating the sufferings of the poor and needy. He released relief material worth Rs 40,000 for the Gujarat earthquake victims and flagged off a rally of children carrying the Red Cross message.
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Windstorm hits
region Shimla, May 8 The windstorm tore roofs of thatched houses, uprooted trees and damaged the standing crop. The storm and rain brought about a considerable fall in the temperature, providing respite to the people from the scorching heat wave in lower areas. Reports said a number of trees had fallen in Theog area of Shimla and Mandi districts, causing damage to the apple, mango and plum crops. Rain and hailstorm lashed some parts of Jammu Division. The mercury which had shot up to 42.2° C dropped to 28.8° C in the
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Action ordered against absentee
staff Solan, May 8 The minister, who was on his way from Parwanoo to Shimla, found on inspection that 10 out of the 25 employees of the office had not reached the office in time. Seven of these, however, reached the office 15 minutes late. The minister waited for nearly an hour to find out whether the three absentees, reported for duty or not. He ordered initiation of disciplinary action when the three did not turn up till 11 a.m. There had been frequent complaints about the office and staff of various government offices, especially those located at some distance from the town, not reaching their offices in time. The minister has earned kudos from the general public for this action. |
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Child charred to death Dharamsala, May 8 According to the police, Pankaj and his elder brother, aged 12, were asleep when the bed caught fire due to a burning candle. While the older boy rushed to a nearby house to call his parents who had gone there to attend a marriage ceremony, the younger one was burnt to death. By the time the villagers assembled, the whole house was on fire and the boy could not be saved. There has been as estimated loss of Rs 2.65 lakh due to fire. Meanwhile, there had been extensive damage to mango and others crops in the area due to heavy storm and rain last night. The road near Jawalamukhi
remained blocked for three hours till midnight due to a landslide. |
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President’s HP visit from May 19 Shimla, May 8 |
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