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Friday,
September 19, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Himachal to have
3 tourist hubs, 140 stone
crushers closed down in Nurpur BJP demands
action Plea to include
Paonta Sahib in railway link |
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SC to hear
medical college case next week A petition seeking withdrawal of sanction to Rajendra Prasad Medical College at Tanda in Himachal Pradesh for “lack” of required facilities, will be taken up for hearing by the Supreme Court on September 23 along with a public interest litigation (PIL) on the functioning of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and the state medical councils. Crime on rise,
people in panic
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Himachal to have 3 tourist hubs, says Jagmohan Kulu, September 18 Mr Jagmohan said the programme had been widely publicised through the BBC, the CNN and the National Geographic channels. He said according to the programme, his ministry had created many hubs in the country and Himachal Pradesh would also have three such hubs, namely Shimla, Kulu-Manali and Kangra-Dharamsala besides development of many side areas. Mr Jagmohan said the Union Tourism and Culture Ministry had already developed Kurukshetra in Haryana along these lines where the tourists now have a multifarious choice to see and enjoy with the history of the place in a light and sound programme. He said an international college of arts had been proposed to be set up at the Roerich art gallery for which Rs 1 crore had been sanctioned by the Prime Minister and now an additional Rs 1 crore had been allocated besides Rs 1.70 crore for the construction of buildings. Initially 30 students would be admitted to the college. The minister expressed the hope that the college would start functioning by October 9, 2004. The minister said his ministry would sponsor an international artists’ camp at Nagar in which world-class artists would participate. He also announced Rs 50 lakh for a museum to be set up at Nagar Castle. Mr Jagmohan said the Manali-Leh Buddhist circuit was being developed for which Rs 70 lakh had already been allocated. The Buddhist circuit would also include Shimla, Kaza and Leh. The minister later visited the
Kulu-Manali airport and inspected the extension of the runway. He was of the opinion that the runway could be extended either by constructing a bridge or by diverting the Beas. To a question whether the Tourism Ministry would allow casinos in India to promote tourism, Mr Jagmohan replied in negative and said “we need healthy tourism.” |
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Stone of tourist complex laid Manali, September 18 The tourist complex will be constructed under Buddhist Circuit Project of the Ministry of Tourism, to encourage and facilitate the
visitors. The construction work on the complex has been entrusted to the
H. P. Housing Board by the Directorate of Mountaineering and Allied Sports,
Manali. The estimated cost of the complex will be Rs 76,27, 700/- and it will be completed in nine months. Earlier Mr Jagmohan also visited Hadimba Devi Temple and Buddhist
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140 stone crushers closed down in Nurpur Nurpur, September 18 According to information, the government has faxed direction to the HPSEB authorities to issue temporary disconnection orders against the power supply to the crushers. In the Damtal sub-division, such orders had been issued for the crushers at Damtal, Dhangu Pir, Majra, Barikhud and Tipri. In the Nurpur electrical sub-division, six orders had been issued to close down the crushers at Nagabari and Kandwal. In Indora and Kotla sub-divisions, four and one units respectively, had been shut at Milwan and Kotla. A seven-member government committee headed by the local SDM, Dr N.K. Lath, had inspected 100 stone crushing units in the border areas of this sub-division and found that half of them were violating norms laid down by the high court. DHARAMSALA:
The Kangra Deputy Commissioner, Mr Srikant Baldi said to ensure that all stone crushers in the district had stopped working, the executive engineers of the state electricity board had been directed to disconnect the power supply to these crushers. He said it was not possible to ensure the closure of each stone-crushing unit without adopting this measure. In Kangra, there are 113 stone-crushing units and 13 more are in the pipeline. According the District Mining Officer Mr K.S. Verma, the largest number of stone crushers, 90, was in the Nurpur subdivision, while Palampur had 5, Kangra 4, Dehra 6, Jwali 3 and Dharamsala 5. The NGOs for pollution check have welcomed the order of the High Court. Mr Kulbhushan Upmanyu who runs an NGO, has termed this order as historic. HAMIRPUR:
All eight stone crushers in the district were closed today following orders of the Himachal Pradesh High Court. While two of the crushers closed operations last evening, the rest were forced to do that when their power supply was discontinued this morning. The people of the district had been strongly protesting against the continuation of the crushing process in all rivulets of the district. Locals were of the view that crushing had been harming their cause. Mr Ashok Thakur, General Secretary of the State Crusher Owners’ Sangh, refused to comment on the court order. He, however, said that the sangh would put up its case before the high court on the date fixed for hearing. Mr Thakur today left for Kulu to have talks with other members of the sangh to finalise their strategy. When contacted, Mr Devesh Kumar, Deputy Commissioner, Hamirpur, said all the SDMs in the district had been told to ensure that the crushing operations were stopped. |
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Govt terms on hydel projects Bharmour, September 18 This was stated here yesterday by the state Forest Minister, Mr Chander Kumar. |
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BJP demands action Shimla, September 18 The hospital building was inaugurated by Mr Virbhadra Singh, as Chief Minister on March 14, 1998 and after the change of the government Mr Dhumal dedicated it after making it functional. The name plates of both the leaders were installed at the gate No. 2 of the hospital. Mr Ganesh Dut, the party spokesperson, said some officers had shifted outside the OPD from the earlier site, to please Mr Virbhadra Singh. |
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Plea to include Paonta Sahib in railway link Nahan, September 18 In the memorandum submitted to the Prime Minister recently, the samiti expressed shock at the exclusion of Paonta Sahib from the sanctioned proposal and described it highly detrimental to the interests of Himachal Pradesh. The samiti said the original plan of the railway link was proposed to connect Chandigarh with Dehra Dun via Jagadhry and Paonta Sahib and added that according to a letter from the then Railway Minister, the proposal was duly sanctioned by the ministry. |
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SC to hear medical college case next week New Delhi, September 18 The petition for seeking derecognition of Tanda and several other medical colleges in other states, had been filed by an ad hoc committee, appointed by the Supreme Court to monitor the functioning of medical institutions across the country. A Bench comprising Mr Justice
M.B. Shah and Mr Justice B.N. Agrawal adjourned the matter till Tuesday next. It has tagged the Tanda Medical College matter also with the other identical matters and the PIL filed by Kolkata citizen Malay Ganguly on the functioning of the MCI. |
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Crime on rise, people in panic Dharamsala, September 18 According to police sources, Karam Chand (52) was working as chowkidar for the past 20 years with the Bathri Co-operative Society. He left home last night but did not return in the morning. When his son, Ashwani Kumar, went looking for him, he found his father murdered. He reported the matter to society officials and police. A case has been registered. The spate of crimes in Kangra district has made people jittery particularly women who are feeling unsafe. On Tuesday night, Neena Davi (35) PCO owner of Dhaloon village under Bagrota Bagwan police station was found murdered. The police also recovered the body of an old man from the same area on Wednesday. According to sources, four persons have been rounded up by the police and SP Kangra himself was present at their interrogation today. In another incident (71) Ludoya Ram of Patiarkhar village under Kangra police station committed suicide by consuming poison. |
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Army deployed
in Kasauli Solan, September 18 |
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