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Pilot project to check monkey menace
Rs 3,781 lakh for construction of houses: minister
Punjab, Haryana CMs to attend celebrations
Doctors seek clarification on Non-Practising Allowance issue
Hamirpur students boycott classes
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Mankotia to focus on
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Father awaits missing son's arrival
Railway union to widow’s rescue
India can tackle white-collar crime, says expert
Revision of electoral rolls from Sept 15
7 Himachal IPS officers transferred
Lawyers condemn Lucknow incident
Mushroom fair on Sept 10
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Pilot project to check monkey menace
Nahan, September 4 The Chief Minister also called upon NGOs to come forward to set up cow shelters in the state. He said such institutions would be provided with land for cow shelters. He said such review meetings of development programmes would be held regularly and he would personally ensure that the programmes were implemented. He said stress would be laid on the uplift of the poor and downtrodden. No carelessness would be tolerated in this connection, he added. The Chief Minister said during the Congress regime, the state remained the frontrunner in the implementation of 20-point programmes. He said it was the Congress government in 1975, which started implementation the programmes in the state. Referring to development in Sirmaur district, Mr Virbhadra Singh said the district remained ignored during the previous BJP regime. He said during this year, Rs 29.39 crore were being spent on the construction of roads and bridges out of which Rs 9.14 crore had been spent up to July. He said Rs 9.93 crore were also being spent on the construction of roads and bridges under NABARD in the district. Besides Rs 6.1 crore were being spent on setting up potable water and irrigation facilities. He said Rs 5.84 crore were also being spent in the district under various rural development programmes. During the past 18 months, approval had been given to 399 new industrial units in the district involving an investment of Rs 913 crore. It would provide employment to 16,000 youths. Shri
K.D. Sultanpuri, Chairman, 20-Point Programme, said the programme was being implemented in letter and in sprit. Shri Madan Lal Sharma, Deputy Commissioner, Sirmaur, highlighted development activities undertaken in the district under the programme. |
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Rs 3,781 lakh for construction of houses: minister
Kulu, September 4 Work of housing colonies at Sanjauli BCS phase-III, Shimla, Kandaghat and Basal in Solan district, Bajaura-II in Kulu district and Daundi in Mandi district was already in progress, he added. In addition to that the Development Authority is developing an industrial township at Bhatolikalan in Una district and construction of commercial complexes at Solan and Parwanoo and booths at Baddi, he said. The finances for the project are arranged by taking loan from HUDCO and the National Housing Board, the minister said. Mr Mahajan said the HP Housing and Urban Development Authority has also taken up construction works under the ‘Deposit Works Scheme’ of different departments like tourism, urban development, education, police, youth services and the Municipal Corporation, Shimla. The minister added that the authority has also approved the proposal of conversion of lease hold rights to free hold rights in respect of residential properties of erstwhile HP Nagar Vikas Pradhikaran and lowered the conversion charges. Sites would be selected for development of one urban townships each between Shimla and Solan, Palampur and Dharamsala and Sundernagar and Mandi in order to give boost to the urban development sector. It has also been planned to construct commercial complexes in most of the district headquarters in the state, he added. |
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Punjab, Haryana CMs to attend celebrations Chandigarh, September 4 He said that the Shiromani Akali Dal chief, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, and former Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee chiefs, Bibi Jagir Kaur and Mr Kirpal Singh Badungar, are also expected to join the
celebrations. Others expected to join the celebrations are Capt Kanwaljit Singh, acting president and general secretary of the SGPC, Mr Alwinderpal Singh Pakhoke, and Mr Sukhdev Singh Bhaur, respectively. Jathedar Takkar said that representatives of Islam, Ms Manju Quereshi, and Christianity, Dr Sunil Sadiq, besides Nihang (Harian Belan) chief , Baba Nihal Singh, would also be present. A huge nagar kirtan procession was organised yesterday which moved through different parts of Paonta Sahib and adjoining villages before terminating at the gurdwara in the evening.
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Doctors seek clarification on
Kangra, September 4 Dr. Ajay Dutta and Dr. Munish Saroch, spokesman and general secretary of the committee, said the government was adopting double standards on the issue. Both doctors in their statement said on one hand the government, through a notification, had decided to de-link the Non-Practising Allowance from their basic pay and on the other hand, the Secretary, Health, was assuring that the NPA given to the doctors would continue to be the part of their basic pay for calculating their DA. They said the doctors wanted a ‘clear cut’ notification regarding any amendment in the August 12 notification, issued earlier, regarding the controversy and that the notification should point out that the clause of the NPA had been withdrawn. They said in the meeting of the joint action committee today it was resolved that if the notification regarding the withdrawal of this clause was not issued within a week the doctors would be forced to cripple the health services in the state. Both leaders of the committee said the government was claiming that August 12 notification was issued in accordance with the notification of Punjab Government of August 1, 2003. They said if the government was adopting the Punjab pattern, the doctors of this state should also be given the house rent allowance besides conveyance, study and rural health allowances like their Punjab counterparts. |
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Hamirpur students boycott classes
Hamirpur, September 4 They have been demanding more teachers in the college and starting of BPEd, MA (History) and MSc (Mathematics) courses. They held a demonstration on the campus of the college and raised anti government and anti-HP University slogans. Vikas Chagotra and Anupam Lakhanpal, president and secretary, respectively, of the local unit of the parishad, claimed that the strike was complete despite efforts of the NSUI to create a rift among the students. They alleged that after their defeat in the SCA elections, NSUI leaders were trying to create an atmosphere of uncertainty in the college. The ABVP leaders lamented that while the number of students in the college was going up, the number of teachers was falling. Meanwhile, the NSUI alleged that the ABVP leaders, who were outsiders, were harming studies at the college. NSUI activists submitted a memorandum to the Principal of the college demanding a complete ban on the movement of outsiders on the college campus. |
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Mankotia to focus on
development
Kangra, September 4 In a statement, Major V.S. Mankotia said generating employment was the most important issue for him and he gave a call to youth of the state to be prepared for any sacrifice for this basic right. He said young leaders should be morally strong honest, upright and with impeccable integrity. “They should draw a lesson from the example set by Ms Sonia Gandhi, who created history by remaining away from the Prime Minister’s chair,” he said. Mr Mankotia said, “No political leader can hold on to the chair forever and it can be taken away at any time but I can say with conviction that one can take away my chair, but not my ‘imann’ ‘Swabhimaan’ and ‘Bhagwan’. He extended an invitation to Ms Sonia Gandhi and Mr Rahul Gandhi to address an Ex-servicemen’s rally on October 31, on the occasion of Balidan Divas, this year at Dharamsala. |
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Father awaits missing son's arrival
Hamirpur, September 4 Naresh Kumar (30), who worked as a driver in Mumbai, was coming home on August 18, 2003, for his marriage, when he went missing. According to his driver colleague, he had reached up to Ambala, after which his whereabouts could not be traced. Later, his driving licence was recovered from a person, who claimed that he had found it at the Chandigarh bus-stand in December 2003. Harbans Lal told The Tribune here last evening that he went to lodge a missing report with the Nadaun police station, but the police refused to register it saying that since his son had gone missing from an other place they could not register the complaint there. A labourer by profession, Mr Lal also went to Mumbai and tried to lodge a complaint there, but failed as he was told by the Mumbai police that the complaint would be lodged at Nadaun and not in Mumbai. He complained that the employers of his son also did not bother to find his missing son. |
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Railway union to widow’s rescue
Solan, September 4 The atrocities meted out to her by her in-laws forced her to leave home and wander here and there to eke out a living. The mentally- disturbed Ms Santosh Kumari had no idea that leaving home would also mean an end to her pension benefits which at least assured her and her children of two square meals a day. Her tale of woes started when she left home and the State Bank of Patiala, railway workshop branch, Kalka, sent her documents back to their head officer at Ambala. An amount of Rs 75,000 had been credited to her account till 1997, which no one came forward to claim for months on end. With the return of the pension payment order back to the railway authorities at Ambala, the monthly pension was no longer received at the bank’s Kalka branch. It was finally after a couple of months that the harassed Ms Santosh Kumari approached the permanent negotiation mechanism of the Uttariya Railway Mazdoor Union that its Divisional Secretary, Mr Vijay Chopra, took up the matter with the higher authorities at Ambala. The PNM submitted an affidavit of Ms Santosh Kumari on May 25, 1996, stating that she had gone out of station for 6-7 months and could not withdraw the pension. She also requested for reinstatement of the pension considering her plight. The PNM, meanwhile, managed to get her appointed as a cleaner at Salogra railway station in August 1998. The efforts of the PNM bore fruit when the Divisional Financial Manager finally sent the pension payment order on August 23, 2004, to the State Bank of Patiala’s Ambala branch to be sent to its Kalka branch for restoring the pension. The order also brought an amount of Rs 1.5 lakh to the poor woman which was credited in her account. |
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India can tackle white-collar crime, says expert
Shimla, September 4 Stating this at a press conference here today, Dr M.S. Rao, Chief Forensic Scientist at the Central Directorate of Forensic Sciences, said the extent to which the country had advanced in investigation of third-generation crime could be judged from the fact that India was the only country besides the USA, which had the latest brain finger printing technology which helped in establishing beyond doubt whether an accused was involved in a particular crime. He said like a computer hard disk the brain also had an indelible imprint of all activities of a person and the brain finger printing technology enabled help in tracing the imprints to rule out or confirm the involvement of an accused. Mr Rao said keeping in view the increasing importance of forensic sciences, it was decided to organise a seminar on “ the role of forensic documents in combating white-collar crimes” to mark the centenary of the second oldest forensic laboratory in the world, the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents (GEQD) , here. He said the GEQD had successfully handled several high-profile cases and the latest was the Telgi stamp paper scam. |
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Revision of electoral rolls from Sept 15
Kulu, September 4 This was stated by Mr Inder Singh Bhardwaj, Electoral Registration Officer and Sub Divisional Magistrate, in a statement released here today. A meeting of the Pradhans, Upradhans of Panchayats, urban bodies, political leaders, Tehsildars, Naib Tehsildars and Block Development Officers was held in which all BDOs were advised to attend the forthcoming Gram Sabha meeting on September 26 and to bring awareness among the voters for updating the electoral rolls. Mr Bhardwaj said the additions and deletions could be done through form numbers 6, 7 and 8 at all polling stations in the district. |
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7 Himachal IPS officers transferred
Shimla, September 4 Mr S.B. Negi takes over as Superintendent of Police, Hamirpur, from Mr P.L. Thakur, who goes as Superintendent of Police (Enforcement), Dharamsala. The latter will replace Mr G.D. Bhargav, who has been posted as Superintendent of police, Kinnaur, in place of Mr Gianeshwar Singh who will be the new district police chief of Solan. Mr Opinder Thakur, Superintendent of Police, Welfare, has been posted as Superintendent of Police, Lahaul and Spiti, in place of Mr Dinesh Kumar Yadav. Mr Yadav takes over as Superintendent of Police, Una, from Mr Ashok Sharma, who goes as Commandant, 2nd Battalion, Dharamsala.
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Lawyers condemn Lucknow incident
Shimla, September 4 The uncivilised and crude display of brute force demonstrated by the police had shocked the nation, it said. Such a violent reaction to a minor incident had once again brought to the fore the fact that the training and working of the police force had not been up to the mark, it added. The council demanded action against the erring police officers and proper compensation to the injured lawyers. Hamirpur: Members of the Hamirpur District Bar Association observed a day-long strike on Saturday in protest against the Lucknow incident in which lawyers were beaten up by the police. Lawyers abstained from work and held a meeting under the chairmanship of Mr Madan Rattan to denounce the incident.
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Mushroom fair on Sept 10
Solan, September 4 The director of the centre, Mr R.P Tewari, while informing this said the technical know-how about its cultivation to the growers would be provided in addition to information on loan disbursement and machinery available in the market. A farmers convention would also be organised where the problems faced by the growers would be dealt with. The centre would demonstrate its latest techniques to the farmers during the day-long fair, he added.
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