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Sunday,
July 27, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Police
sounds red alert in Nurpur areas CRPF
officer to sue govt over son’s death Seminar on
higher education opened HP varsity
passes Rs 40.99-cr budget |
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Scientist
absents from office Governor
for boosting pilgrim tourism Two buried
in landslide Husband,
wife held for youth’s death Nagni
fair celebrated Cong
suspends office-bearer 
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Police sounds red alert in Nurpur areas Nurpur, July 26 According to information the Kangra police
intends to leave no chance for the hiding militants to strike. The militants strike on Vaishno Devi pilgrims has rung alarm bells here due to the famous district-level fairs being celebrated at Kathgarh and Nagni Mata temple in Nurpur subdivision. These fairs are visited by thousands of devotees. The intelligence and security agencies have already observed that militants can penetrate into remote and border areas of Himachal Pradesh. They can develop local links who can not only provide them safe haven but exact information for carrying out strikes in the border areas as it happened in the case of militants’ attack on Army personnel last year. The local police headed by SHO Nurpur has launched a search operation in Bhadroya and Lodwan bordering areas of Nurpur immediately after the militants’ attack on Vaishno Devi pilgrims. The SHO, Mr R.P. Jaswal, admitted that the police had been conducting house to house search in the border areas of Nurpur for the past four days. He revealed that the operation would continue for another couple of days. According to Mr S. Jahoor H. Zaidi SSP Kangra, the police has been conducting operation only in suspected border areas of Nurpur. He confirmed that the police had also stepped up security of Army establishments in Kangra district. |
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CRPF officer to sue govt over son’s death Chandigarh, July 26 In an unprecedented move, a former Commandant with the Central Reserve Police Force, Mr Hardev Singh, whose son died when an Army Aviation Corps helicopter had crashed in Himachal Pradesh while on a mission, has decided to sue the state government for its failure to identify and mark make-shift ropeways strung across valleys which pose serious hazards to flying. Stating that the state government should own responsibility for the incident as it was its duty to mark flying hazards so that they are visible to aviators, Mr Hardev
Singh, while speaking to The Tribune here today, said that he would also seek compensation from the Himachal Government for his personal loss. The state government has already compensated the Army for the loss of the chopper. On Divali in 1998, two officers, Capt G.D. Singh and Maj Shankaran were on a sortie to assist troops stranded on a long range patrol in the Himalayas, when their chopper got entangled in a ropeway and crashed in the Sangla Valley. Both pilots, who were ferrying food packets and other supplies, were killed. “We have passed on the relevant documents to our lawyer, but we are still awaiting a copy of the report of the court of inquiry instituted into the incident. Although we have written several times to various authorities, it has not been supplied,” Mr Hardev Singh, himself a recipient of the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry for anti-terrorist operations, said. Captain G.D. Singh had been married for just 11 months when he lost his life. His widow continued to remain with his parents. The growing number of orchards and farms in the upper regions of Himachal Pradesh as well as a vast network of transmission lines emerging from largescale hydel power projects has resulted in pylons and cables springing up in almost every nook and corner of the region. Make-shift cable-ways are set up by locals to transport goods across valleys. Among the most effected area is the air-route to Puh — headquarters of the formation responsible for the defence of Himachal against China. The Army wants that such ropeways and pylons be marked with luminous paint and streamers which would be visible from a distance and may serve as navigational and flight safety aids. Many of them are in close vicinity of helipads. In addition to a large number of tactical helipads, there are several helipads in that area to which regular sorites are undertaken. It is the responsibility of the civilian agencies to identify and mark such hazards to ensure flight safety. The matter has regularly cropped up during Civil Military Liaison Conferences between Headquarters, Western Command, and the state government in the past. |
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Seminar
on higher education opened Shimla, July 26 Inaugurating a two-day national seminar on the impact of globalisation on higher education organised by the Vishva Vidyalaya Vichar Manch and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad here today, he said there was a dire need to maintain a balance between education and society, which could be disturbed due to indiscriminate globalisation. The Governor expressed concern over the tendency of educated youth to migrate to other countries to earn higher wages leaving the rich cultural traditions of the country behind. He said all developed countries recognised India as a big source of skilled manpower. He said it was a matter of concern that crores of rupees were being spent on providing better education to students in the country but they were not interested in serving it and preferred to go abroad to earn more. Mr Ramesh Pappa, all-India secretary of the ABVP, said developed countries were discouraging higher education as a policy and were utilising skilled manpower from countries like India. It did not augur well for the country as it would lose its trained and qualified manpower. The real impact would be felt when restrictions would be fully lifted. |
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HP varsity passes Rs 40.99-cr budget Shimla, July 26 The members expressed resentment over the short notice at which the meeting of the council was convened. They allowed the budget to be passed to enable the university to pay salaries but insisted that they would have full discussion at the next meeting. Besides new recruitment would not be made due to financial crisis. As the government had refused to increase the grant in aid from last year’s level of Rs 19.17 crore, the university will have to bridge the deficit of Rs 9.30 crore by raising additional resources. The income from university’s own sources was only Rs 12.52 crore. The next meeting will be held within two months to discuss ways and means to tackle the financial crisis. |
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Scientist
absents from office Solan, July 26 Mr Munish came to the institute on Tuesday after a fortnight and left in the afternoon. He has not turned up in the office ever since. Officials marked a question mark for his absence without information in the attendance register. It is learnt that a telegram was received by the office last evening seeking extension of his leave. Officials, however, rejected his plea. He has been directed to report for duly. A telegram in this regard was later sent to his native place in Mandi district informing him of the rejection of his request. A fifteen-day show cause notice dated July 12, was issued to four scientists by the Director Health to explain position with regard to the furnishing of experience certificates for obtaining the job. Mr Munish has not received the notice as he was on leave since July 7 for medical reasons. He earlier extended his leave through a telegram. |
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Governor
for boosting pilgrim tourism Kangra, July 26 Mr Kokje, who is on a six-day tour to the twin districts of Kangra and Chamba, said boosting of pilgrim tourism would strengthen the unity and integrity of the country as it brought people from the length and breadth of the country closer to each other. He said people from all nooks and corners of the country undertook the Amarnath yatra in Jammu and Kashmir nowadays bringing people closer to one another. Earlier the Governor visited the Jwalamukhi temple and paid obeisance there. |
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Two buried in landslide Shimla, July 26 Three trucks, which were parked on the highway, were also buried under debris. Downhill further three houses at Shantinagar were also heavily damaged by huge boulders. However, the occupants escaped safely. The dead have been identified as Somi of Solan and Pyar Chand of Karsog. Jaikrishan and Sita Ram, both of Solan, and Pan Chand of Salooni were injured. The bodies were yet to be recovered. With this, the death toll in this season in the state has reached 40. |
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Husband, wife held for youth’s death Dharamsala, July 26 It may be recalled that Vikramjit Singh had allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in Yatri Sadan at Chamunda temple on July 18. The couple had come with him and they had stayed together but the two absconded after the death of Vikramjit Singh. The father of deceased had rejected the suicide note found at the Yatri Sadan. |
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Nagni fair
celebrated Nurpur, July 26 Presiding over the fair, Mr Sat Mahajan, Rural Development and
Panchayati Raj Minister, underlined the need to develop such places as tourist spots. He said the state government would give full cooperation to the Nagni Temple Committee for the development of the temple area. The minister laid the foundation stone of a temple serai and announced a grant of Rs 1 lakh for the Mahila Mandal Bhavan. |
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Cong suspends office-bearer Shimla, July 25 The disciplinary action against her has been taken in connection with the statements given by her to mediapersons after visiting the area affected by the Puliah Nullah cloudburst as the member of the PCC team. |
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Relief
sought for farmers Shimla, July 26 The DYFI stated in a press note that the underground tunnel of the project would affect a large population of the area and cause loss of groundwater, grasslands besides causing many other problems. |
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