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PARWANOO DIARY Bali is president of bar association
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HP Annual Plan fixed
at Rs 1,720 crore New Delhi, September 28 The 2001-2002 Plan of the state was finalised at a meeting between Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman
K.C. Pant here today. The Chief Minister said the state had recorded an average growth rate of 6.6 per cent between 1998-99 and 2000-01 against the national average of 6.3 per cent. He said the social sector had been given maximum priority with Rs 755.35 crore allocated to it. In nominal terms, the aggregate Plan outlay for the first four years comes to Rs 5,768 crore which was equivalent to Rs 5,052.75 crore at the 1996-1997 prices. Mr Dhumal said the Ninth Plan outlay of Rs 5,700 crore would be achieved and physical content of the Plan would also be realised. The social indicators in the state in areas such as health, education, housing, assets distribution were among the best in the country and the state would achieve further growth in these areas during the 10th Plan, he said. The Chief Minister said an additional 7,100 MW hydel power would be generated by investing a total of Rs 40,000 crore in the private, Central and state sectors to generate an additional revenue of Rs 1,000 crore per annum by 2010. A system of incentives and disincentives had been introduced for speedy actualisation of power potential. Mr Dhumal said production of fruits, vegetables, off-season vegetables, vegetable seeds and tea would be doubled to 11 lakh tonnes per annum in the next 10 years to generate an annual income of Rs 600 crore. The state has registered a net increase of 561 km in forest cover. During the past three years, Rs 300 crore had been spent to construct 2,097 km roads and 172 bridges to connect 213 villages. Mr Dhumal said Rs 900 crore were spent on primary education during the past three years in the state. While 2,781 primary schools were opened, 569 middle schools, 110 high schools and 112 senior secondary schools were
upgraded. He said enrolment of girls at middle/high level was higher for SC/ST girls compared to the girls belonging to the general category. |
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Nothing as standard ‘English’: Prof
Harris Shimla, September 28 “It is a fallacy to assume that rules are inherent in a language activity. As a means of communication the language evolved first and grammar, which is the product of writing, came later,” the eminent scholar of linguistics, who was here to participate in a symposium on “Signification in Buddhist and French traditions” at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, observed during an interview with The Tribune. Greek philosopher Heracleitus’ pithy saying “One cannot step into the same river twice” applies well to a language. Like a flowing river the language remains in a state of ceaseless flux. Rules and systematisation have to be impositions from outside, unless these happen to represent language as a static system of some kind, he pointed out. The “integrationism” school of linguistic study, to which he belongs, acknowledges the world of time and believes that language is made every day, not due to inventing of new words but integration of the present experience with the past experience and the future. The primary function of a language is integrating the continuity of experience, if it cannot achieve this, it is of no use. “Thus, a language never remains static. It is constantly made and remade. Every utterance is spatiotemporally unique. There is no continuity, which validates the concept of repetition. The concept is opposed to the orthodox tradition of linguistic study based on the assumption that words and meanings persist through time and this questions all notions that there is a standard language,” he explained. Elaborating, he said the linguistic acts did not have some special status of their own. There was complete parity of status between linguistic acts and other acts and the principle of “contemporality” enunciated by ancient Indian thinker Nagarjuna and recognised centuries later by integrationists. Further, more widely a language is used, the more varied it is, and at times it acquires almost a different form. For instance, the political label of English corresponds to varied usage so much so that people familiar with one may not understand the other form. The integrationists “make and remake” their meanings by recontextualising what was said before by relating it to their past experience of continuity. It is not possible to skip tomorrow or to have yesterday back again. The future and the past are both extrapolations from the here-and-now, one based on imagination and the other on memory. A language reflected and enabled those extrapolations. Only a dead language, which is spoken by a few families in some pockets, can have a standard form. There can be no uniformity in a living vibrant language used by millions. |
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form Banikhet, September 28 So when on the inaugural day of the residency symposium on performing arts here, two South Korean ballerinas embodied the beauty of these curves, the audience experienced “profound bliss”. The beginning to the 10-day session on the nuances of various Asia-Pacific performing arts could not have been better. How dancing can reveal all mystery which music conceals became evident when Dr Sun Ock Lee from South Korea teamed up with her brilliant disciple Soo Hee Cho to present Son Mu Zen dance. Drawing its elements from the Zen philosophy, this form of dance transported the audience into a different world. Attired in white rice paper garments, the two dancers seemed to be flying on the wings of desire. And adding beauty to softness of the dance, which Dr Lee described as “meditation in movement”, were the subtle melodies playing in the background. Talking to the performer, who has pioneered Son Mu Zen technique, one was able to identify the Buddhist influence on this South Korean dance form which is rooted in peace. Dr Lee, who is also the secretary-general of the Asia Pacific Performing Arts Network and its international coordinator, explained, “This form of dance is designed to incorporate breathing through the ‘tanjun’ (the lower abdominal region) and mantric vocalising. Meditative in nature, this form allows the performer to delete the thought process and flow with the forces of creation, seeking complete harmony with them.” There are thus three essential stages in this Zen dance: the stage of meditating through the lower abdominal part; existence without thinking, and employing tantrik mudras to achieve harmony. Zen dancers employ as many as 360 tantrik mudras. Pioneering this art form, which is also the foundation for formal meditation practice, came easy to Sun Ock Lee who has worked with many famous modern dancers. She said, “I was in New York for 20 years before I moved back to Seoul to revive traditional forms.” She did not train under any Zen master. She learnt from her experiences, so much so that she established the Son Mu Zen Dance Company. Credited with her multimedia offering “Form is Emptiness,” a work that is truly plural in nature (it blends drumming, chanting, Buddhist paper art and elements of Korean ritual and modern dance), Sun Ock Lee is now training many aspirants. This dance technique sought to explore the healing power of meditation in movement. Introducing the form, Ock Lee said: “Focus in the dance form provides the source of creativity and further through the yin and yang in the dance meditation, a state of healing and peace of mind are achieved.”
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PARWANOO DIARY PARWANOO: The Rotary Club of Parwanoo has decided to construct a community centre in Sector 5 at a cost of Rs 60 lakh. The Rotary Club of Switzerland will donate $ 30,000 and the Rotary Foundation will contribute $ 25,000. The Government of Himachal Pradesh will give Rs 10 lakh. Members of the local Rotary Club, the industrialists and other residents of Parwanoo have contributed Rs 5 lakh. The building which will have a plinth area of 8,000 square feet, will have two stories. The centre will provide computer training to poor students at a nominal fee. It will also provide training in different sports and games. The Rotary Club also organised a Hepatitis-B vaccination camp in the ESI hospital. As many as 325 persons including 211 children were vaccinated at the camp. An awareness camp regarding hepatitis and its prevention was also organised at Eicher School and at the Parwanoo Industries Association. « « « The National Public Senior Secondary School, Sector 4, organised a two-day Mata Kaushalya Devi Volleyball tournament. Mr Amar Nath, vice president of Bhagat Panchayat, was the chief guest. The trophy and a cash prize of Rs 1100, was won by the Sanatan Dharam Sabha, Kalka. Teams from Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, participated in the tournament. The final match was played between Sanatan Dharam Sabha, Kalka, and the Housing Board, Parwanoo. Raj Bahadur and Ravi of Parwanoo were declared the man of the match and the man of the series respectively.
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