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Tuesday,
May 14, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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IG dispels
rumours of ultras’ infiltration
Cops
framed record in Gohar timber case NURPUR ROUND-UP |
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BADDI DIARY Sewage discharge a threat to residents’ health Scholarship
denied, student moves court Mentally
retarded woman raped 2,000
down with dysentery One
arrested in assault case HPSEB
man held on forgery charge 
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IG dispels rumours of ultras’ infiltration Chamba, May 13 Mr Rana was talking to residents of the Pangi
valley at Killar, the subdivisional headquarters, recently after
conducting an aerial reconnaissance of the sensitive border areas
along with senior police officers, including Deputy Commissioner Rahul
Anand. He claimed that there was an absolute normalcy in the
villages along the borders. The people were satisfied with the
security provided by the paramilitary forces deployed there. No
ultra strikes had occurred during the past more than three and a half
years. It could be possible for surface patrolling and anti-insurgency
operations carried out round-the-clock in coordination with the
special police officers and village defence committees. Meanwhile,
the District Magistrate, Mr Rahul Anand, has issued notification under
Section 144 of the CrPC asking labourers, masons, strangers, nomad
traders or contractors who engaged labour from outside the state to
get them verified and registered with the police. The orders will
remain in force up to June 30. The Magistrate warned that violations
of the orders would be dealt with sternly.
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2 Israeli girls acquitted Shimla, May 13 Both these
girls had been undergoing 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1
lakh each on a charge of smuggling charas. The high court, which heard
their petition on Thursday, set aside the order of the sessions court
and acquitted them of the offence. While the father of Ms Berta had
come to receive his daughter, the mother of Ms Ravit was there outside
the jail, to take her. Mr Berta, who reached here today, said
although she had undergone the agony of trial and imprisonment she was
happy. She was able to come out of the jail within 11 month. She along
with Shirki were arrested near Bhuntar in Kulu on June 12 last year. Her
father, Mr Cohen Meir, who had come here all the way from Israel where
he runs a restaurant, was equally overjoyed and praised the prison
staff who had been good to his daughter. He reached Nahan on February
27 to pursue his daughter’s case in the court. Ms Berta said that
she had come here after completing her school as she was fascinated
with what she had been hearing about India. She met Ms Ravit only on
the day they were to return to Delhi for catching their homeward
flight. She was visibly afraid of talking about the police personnel
who had arrested these two girls. She said the condition of the
Nahan jail was pretty bad. Eleven women were lodged in a single
barrack and were provided only three buckets of water daily. They had
to confront scorpions, rats and mosquitos in the barrack. Ms Ravit,
along with her three-month-old bady, Ore Shirki, who was born in the
jail on February 9, did not come here after her release. her mother,
Mrs Mazal Shirki, had been camping at Nahan for the past many months
to take care of her daughter and the baby. |
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Cops framed record in Gohar timber case Shimla, May 13 An FIR registered against the local Station House
Officer Mr Lal Chand, Sub-Inspector Nagendra, Head Constable Daler
Khan and driver Hira Singh after the villagers caught them carrying
timber in a police truck near Samtosh village on May 8. The villagers
alleged that the policemen were carrying illicit timber in connivance
with a local panchayat person, Mr Devi Das. However, the police
denied charge and claimed that the timber was seized during night
patrolling. They also showed the record which, the villagers alleged,
was prepared afterwards. However, a case under Sections 41 and 42 of
the Forest Act was registered against the policemen. Later, the
Director-General of Police entrusted the case to the CID. After
recording the statements of witnesses, the CBI added Section 218 of
the IPC in the FIR charging the policemen with framing incorrect
record and writing with the intent to save some person from
punishment. Mr I.D. Bhandari, Inspector-General of Police, CID,
confirmed the development. He said it would take sometime to complete
investigations into the case. |
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NURPUR ROUND-UP THE proposal of Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal to create
more districts in the state has raised the hope among residents of
Nurpur subdivision that their long-standing demand for carving out a
new district incorporating Nurpur, Jawali and Bhattiyat subdivisions
will be met. Mr Dhumal had publicly stated that he was in favour of
small districts to ensure better administration and development. The
residents are demanding that the proposed district should consist of
five assembly segments — Nurpur, Gangath, Jawali, Guler and
Bhattiyat. The residents have been keeping their fingers crossed following the economic package announced by the Prime Minister to the
state during his visit to Shimla on March 24 to mark the competition
of four years of the BJP-HVC Government. Moreover, the BJP in its
poll manifesto had promised more districts to accelerate the pace of
development. Significantly Mr Rakesh Pathania, the local MLA who heads
the Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation, had won his
election in 1998 on the issues of opening a government college and
launching an agitation for district status for Nurpur. His first
promise of a government college has been fulfilled with its
sanctioning in the annual budget for next fiscal year. Nurpur is a
deserving case for upgradation. It is situated in the north-west of
the state and is one of the gateways to Himachal Pradesh. The area has
remained neglected, particularly by the previous governments. During
the Virbhadra Singh regime in 1995, Opposition leaders had spearheaded
an agitation under the banner of Nurpur Zila Banao Action Committee,
but it flopped. It is pertinent to mention here that the
neighbouring Nagar Panchayat of Chuwari, the subdivisional
headquarters of Bhattiyat assembly segment, had passed a resolution a
few years ago demanding incorporation of Bhattiyat subdivision with
Nurpur whenever the latter got district status. The Nagar Panchayat
had pleaded that Chamba, the district headquarters, was far away
whereas the distance between Nurpur and Chuwari was just 25 km. The
local Town Welfare Committee has appealed to the residents to rise
above political considerations and press the government to grant
district status to the area. The committee had already submitted a
resolution to the Chief Minister. The local Municipal Council has
for the first time launched a councillor development fund by
allocating Rs 50,000 to each councillor, who would spend this fund for
development of his ward. The MC Chairman, Mr R.K. Mahajan, while
presenting the MCs annual budget recently, stated that there was a
provision of Rs 1.24 crore for this fund. Out of the total amount, Rs
20 lakh and Rs 18 lakh would be spent on development works and street
lights respectively. The MC would generate Rs 24.16 lakh from its own
resources, whereas Rs 49.28 lakh is expected from the state government
as grant-in-aid, he added. The move of the Union Archaeology
Department to shift the premises of Government Senior Secondary
School, Nurpur, has sparked criticism. The school building has been
housed in the local historical fort for a long time, even before
whereas as Archaeology Department had come into existence in 1958. The
head of the Archaeology Department, whose head office is in
Chandigarh, has reportedly served several notices to Director of
Education, Himachal Pradesh, asking the authorities to shift the
premises in its own building built outside Nurpur fort. Intriguingly,
the Archaeology Department has been given incorrect information that
the Education Department had built a new building outside the fort
premises. Without verifying the facts the department head had served
notices on the Education Department. |
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BADDI DIARY The Bhojia Dental College established in 2000 near here has set the pace for educational development in this industrial belt, which had nothing much to offer in terms of education to the students of the area. Not only has the institute taken a lead in community health care by regularly organising health camps but has also brought a ray of hope to the locals here. Established under an idea conceived by a religious-minded Raj Kumar Gupta of Manimajra, the college has been given the nod to admit the fresh batch of third year students to the course. The Dental Council of India has given a good grading to the college in its three inspections. The trust has left no stone unturned to equip the college with the latest facilities, reveals the principal, Dr Jagmohan Lal, who is an outstanding academician. He has won 17 medals in his career. He was also the former Dean of Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kurukshetra University. A 100-bed hospital had already been established in the premises, which is receiving a heavy influx of patients from the nearby villages. It is equipped with all facilities to conduct various diagnostic tests. Medicines for common ailments are dispensed through the dispensary with the poor getting concessions. The college has a galaxy of highly experienced teachers drawn from top institutes like King George’s Medical College, Lucknow, IGMC Shimla, etc. In addition to this there is a well stocked library with as many as 1250 books and 18 journals, including 11 foreign journals. It is proposed to add more titles to provide varied information on different subjects. Teaching aids in the form of television monitors with close circuits are provided in the labs to facilitate teaching in the labs. The college has 80 seats, out of which 50 are free merit seats, 21 are paid merit seats and 9 are reserved for NRIs. The students are admitted as per a merit list drawn after a pre-medical test conducted by Himachal Pradesh University. The sprawling campus spread over six acres also houses a hostel for the students. The Principal of the college, Dr Jagmohan Lal, while talking about the future plans of the institute stated that they would also start a postgraduate course in dental sciences. The highly qualified and experienced staff of the college was competent to handle this charge. In addition to this there was another proposal to start a speciality centre at Manimajra where six specialists from different departments would be employed. This will further prove helpful to the students who will be taken there for gaining practical knowledge on various subjects. There is another proposal to open an oral cancer clinic here for which the building has nearly been completed and the equipment has also been purchased. This will help provide treatment to the cancer patients of the region. The college is regularly organising camps to the nearby about 200 villages to make available medical facilities to the poor and the aged at the doorsteps. This has increased the awareness among the rural masses about their health particularly dental health. A mobile van equipped with two chairs regularly visits the nearby villages where on-the-spot treatment is provided to the people. The region is poised to become a model educational centre with the coming up of another college of engineering and emerging technologies close to this dental college.
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Sewage discharge a threat to residents’ health PARWANOO: The discharge of urban waste and domestic sewage into the local nullahs and Kaushalaya river flowing adjacent to this industrial town is posing a serious threat to the health of the residents of this town and the villagers of the surrounding areas. The flowing of sewage discharge from the damaged and broken septic tanks constructed in the town is a common scene in all the sectors of this town. The complete sewage system of the town is on the verge of collapsing. Almost all the septic tanks are either damaged or broken and sewage water keeps on overflowing because even the septic tanks do not have lids. Some of the septic tanks have been constructed near the residential areas and the overflowing water gives a very bad smell and becomes a breeding ground for flies, mosquitoes and other pests which become a health hazard for the residents. Other septic tanks have been constructed near the local nullahs and the overflowing discharge mixes with the water and pollutes the water. The Kaushalya river, which flows adjacent to this town, comes from Dharampur side and has a hilly slope on both sides of the river. All the hotels, dhabas and tourist resorts situated along the hilly slope throw their waste on the hilly side, and during the rains, all this waste comes down into the river and adversely affects the quality of water. This river is also a drinking water source for this town. Some of the industries throw their waste, which includes plastic material, waste paper and thermacol items. The tourist buses which ply on the Kalka-Shimla National Highway halt on the roadside and provide eatables to passengers and leave the waste on the roadside, which also add to the pollution of the Kaushalya river. The residents of Sector 5 of this town complain that the drinking water which is supplied to this sector is very much polluted because the drinking water is drawn from a nullah adjacent to this Sector, which is polluted with the waste flowing down from the villages. The sewage line and the septic tank of Sector-1A is damaged near Shiwalik cafe and the water is openly flowing into the nullah. It also emits a bad smell. The sewage system of the local Sector-4 is also completely damaged and the water keeps on flowing from the damaged septic tank and mixes with the water in the nullah in Sector-5. A huge septic tank has been constructed in Sector-4 but this is lying idle for years because it has not been connected with the sewage system of Sector-4. The sewage system of this industrial town was laid in 1980, catering for only about 5000 people but now the population of the town has grown manyfolds but no improvement has been done in the system. According to the local doctors, most of the residents of this town are suffering from water-borne diseases. According to the executive officer of the local Nagar Parishad the nagar parishad maintains the sewage system and has already spent about Rs 5 lakh, but the system is old and there are no sufficient funds to maintain it. The executive officer said the nagar parishad has already sent a new project proposal of the sewage system costing about Rs 35 lakh to the government of Himachal Pradesh for approval but the sanction has not been given yet.
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Scholarship
denied, student moves court Nurpur, May 13 Under the scheme students of OBC families
are entitled to a scholarship of Rs 10,000 from the state government
if they secure over 60 per cent marks in the annual matriculation
examination conducted by the HP Board of School Education. Rishi who
belongs to an OBC family, had secured 62.5 per cent marks in the
matriculation held in March under 2000 under roll number 551399 at
Government Senior Secondary School, Bhadwar, near here. Enquiries
reveal that his name was recommended for scholarship to the District
Education Officer, Kangra by Government Senior Secondary School Nurpur
too, where he had studied after matriculation vide a letter dated
October 10,2000. But he was surprised to find his name missing in
the scholarship list issued by the Board of School Education under the
ASY. Rishi’s father wrote several letters to the Director,
Education, Shimla, and the Education Minister demanding the
scholarship amount, but all in vain. After serving legal notices to
the Education Department and the HP Government, Mr Prem Chand has now
filed a suit in the local Sub Judge’s court. |
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Mentally
retarded woman raped Nurpur, May 13 According to the
police, the accused took the victim to a deserted place and committed
the crime. The accused has been arrested. A medical examination of
the victim confirmed rape. In another case, Sunita Sharma (23), who
was married four years ago at Baduee village, near here, committed
suicide allegedly by consuming a pesticide on Sunday. |
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2,000 down
with dysentery Hamirpur, May 13 Health Department sources said here today that the severe
heat-wave conditions were responsible for such health problems in the
area. Patients of dysentery have been queing up at hospitals in
Hamirpur, Maudaha, Raath, Kabrai, Sumerpur and Karara. A shortage
of saline water bottles, essential for treatment in such cases, has
been reported, sources said.
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One arrested in assault case Dharamsala, May 13 According to
the Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mr N.D. Sareen, Usha
Devi had registered the complaint. She said she had asked the victim
to accompany her to distribute sweets in the neighbourhood. However,
when she failed to turn up, Usha Devi along with other members of her
family began a search for her. She returned quite late and on being
questioned told them that she had been assaulted by the accused, who
was working as a labourer at the village nullah. A case has been
registered in this regard. In another case Jeet, resident of Majra
village, has been arrested by the Indora police and 30,000 ml of
illicit liquor and a working still has also been seized. A case has
been registered under the Excise Act. |
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HPSEB man
held on forgery charge Chamba, May 13 According to Mr S.R. Ojha, Superintendent of Police, the
police has registered cases against the accused under various Sections
of the IPC. The SP said the accused had been remanded in police
custody till May 17. |
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10+2 science
group results today Dharamsala, May 13 |
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Kufri,
Naldehra phones out of order Shimla, May 13 |
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OBC federation to hold ‘chakka jam’ Dharamsala, May 13 |
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