 |
|
Rain showers troubles on state
Chandigarh-Manali road closed
Water enters Kala Amb villages
Virbhadra promises world-class marketing network
CM asks industry to employ ex-servicemen as security guards
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Advocates flay CM’s remarks
I did nothing wrong, says IIAS Director
Hospitals, health centres
to be upgraded
Dental colleges yet to notify fee structure
Lecturer dies in mishap
BJP condemns Ayodhya attack
B.Sc (I) result declared
|
|
Rain showers troubles on state
Shimla, July 5 Rohru, Jubbal, Kiari and Khaneti areas were cut off as landslides blocked all roads beyond Kotkhai. The bus stand at Kotkhai was buried under a heap of muck brought down by the storm water. While the Ghalta building on the edge of the bus stand had been rendered unsafe, a residential building was also damaged by debris on the Jubbal road. Local people alleged that the failure of the PWD to ensure proper disposal of the debris generating by the ongoing widening work of the Kotkhai - Rohru was responsible it. Water inundated many houses at Mandli in
Rohru. The National Highway-22 was blocked at Neogli near Rampur. Landslides also blocked many link roads in upper Shimla. Baspa, Manglad khad and other tributaries of the Sutlej were in spate as a result of which the discharge in the river had again increased and crossed 1400 cusecs. |
|
Chandigarh-Manali road closed
Shimla, July 5 The swollen Pabbar and Andhra had already broken the banks at some places near Rohruas a result of which a forest loghut, a cooking gas refill godown and five foot bridges have been washed away. Mr Amarjit Singh, the local subdivisional magistrate has rushed to the affected area. More details were awaited. The Chandigarh-Manali highway was closed to traffic after a 2 km stretch of the road was submerged by Beas near
Hanogi. Initially the road was closed for light vehicles, however, it was
completely closed after a bus was caught in swirling water. All passengers of the bus were rescued. The traffic was diverted via Bajaura as the water level was still rising. The Markanda river was also in spate and posing a threat to power substation at Kala Amb. The water level was 5 ft of the substation at the time of filling of the report. Water had entered some houses in the neighbouring areas of Haryana. The people living along the swollen rivers have been warned as a precautionary measures. |
|
Water enters Kala Amb villages
Nahan, July 5 There is a flood-like situation in the Kala Amb area of Haryana under Narayangarh subdivision as rain water flowing from the Himachal side have entered villages. As per the reports reached here, Nahan SDM Manmohan Sharma reached the spot and was supervising the safety measures being taken by the Sirmour administration to save people and their property from any damage. Mr M.L. Sharma, Deputy Commissioner, Sirmour, said the situation was under control in the Kala Amb area. He said the Kala Amb-Trilokpur road was blocked due to landslides which had been cleared. He said the SDM had been asked to take all necessary steps to clear the rain water which had entered the Haryana villages. |
|
Quake in Kangra, Chamba
Palampur, July 5 |
|
Virbhadra promises world-class marketing network
Shimla, July 5 Mr Virbhadra Singh, the Chief Minister, said this while presiding over the meeting of Dhalli Marketing Yard, here, today. He said Rs 70-crore, ultra-modern marketing yard would be equipped with latest facilities. The construction of the marketing yard at Dhalli was a step to meet the challenges being posed by global markets, he added. It would have capacity to market 45 to 50 lakh apple boxes during peak season with sufficient space for auctioning and parking. Electronic marketing facilities would also be created so that wider markets could be explored for selling the produce at remunerative prices, the CM said. He said that similar marketing yards would be developed at the district headquarters followed by subyards at the subdivisional level. The CM added that the state was gearing up to create infrastructure to match the global marketing trends so that the state produce could be sent beyond the national boundaries. Mr Virbhadra Singh urged the orchard-owners to approach the Bureau of Indian Standards to get their produce standardised by the globally recognized agency which would help them get good prices. He stressed the need to educate the growers about the provisions of the agency and help them in getting themselves registered. |
|
CM asks industry to employ ex-servicemen as security guards
Shimla, July 5 Stating this while presiding over the 5th meeting of the state-level committee for the management of the Chief Minister’s Sainik Welfare Fund, here today. Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said the ex-servicemen would be trained by professionally qualified personnel to enable them to perform new assignment with competence. The government would create a force of ex-servicemen which would be capable, dependable, reliable and efficient in discharging the duties of industrial security guards. He said all industrial houses would be requested to recruit ex-servicemen for security services. The Chief Minister directed the authorities to take up the matter with the Directorate General of Re-settlement of the Ministry of Defence and request it to cooperate with the state government in re-settlement of the ex-servicemen of the state in various private sector organisations. Mr Singh directed the authorities to take necessary steps for filling the vacancies of District Sainik Welfare Officer so that they could look after the rehabilitation and other requirements of the ex-servicemen in their respective districts. He also directed them to renovate Sainik Rest Houses in the state and maintain them properly. He said a bi-annual meeting of the committee would be held so that the matters relating to the welfare of the ex-servicemen were discussed on priority. He said Rs 2.60 crore had been provided to the families of 52 martyrs of Operation Vijay in Kargil, adding that 38 dependents of the martyrs and 9 disabled soldiers had been provided employment besides other benefits. He said letters of commitment had been issued in favour of 14 dependents of the operation. Another Rs 6.24 crore had been provided to 208 families of the Operation
Rakshak, he said, adding that 48 families of the paramilitary forces who had been killed in various operations were also granted Rs 1 lakh each, while in other cases 113 families of soldiers had also been provided financial assistance of Rs 25,000 each. In all the Chief Minister’s Sainik Welfare Fund had provided financial benefits worth Rs 10.28 crore to the families of martyrs and disabled soldiers, he added. |
|
Advocates flay CM’s remarks
Bilaspur, July 5 Its chairman Daulatram Sharma said today more than 3,500 advocates had attended a rally in Shimla on May 26 and had unanimously decided not to pay this tax “at any cost.” He warned that the committee would ‘gherao’ the Chief Minister and show black flags if he failed to withdraw this “anti-advocates statements.” |
|
I did nothing wrong, says IIAS Director
Shimla, July 5 The one-man committee, probing the alleged saffronisation of the institute during the NDA regime, has held her responsible of various acts of omission and commission. However, Dr Chandel finds certain findings of the committee too exaggerated. She said much was being made of her absence from the headquarters, but the figure of 471 days mentioned in the report seemed to be arrived at on the basis of the logbook of her car and not her actual tour programmes. The official car is not used only by the director. Further, the Supreme Court had ordered shifting of the institute from the Viceregal Lodge and she had to go out frequently to plead the case for retaining it in the existing complex. The institute had also a camp office at Delhi where most of the activities shift during winter from December 1 to March 31. She remained at Delhi on official duty and in the past, period of stay had been counted as official. Regarding her foreign tours, Dr Chandel said she had to go abroad frequently to represent India in the International Society of Philosophers of which she was elected as a member in 1998 and senior vice-president in 2003. Moreover, her foreign tours were approved by the governing body of the institute. She also denied running any publishing house and asserted that Kalki was an academic forum set up in 1997-98 to honour the philosophers for their lifelong work. As the forum did not want to give the details of Dr D.P. Chattopadhyaya to any commercial publisher, it was brought out under the banner of Kalki. Since it was mandatory to print the name of printer and publishers, the address of her flat was given, she said. Books in philosophy were neither solicited by publishers nor published by them and one could not have a publishing programme for business in philosophy. Dr Chandel said she had brought all these facts to the notice of the committee. However, the committee did not take due cognisance of such important facts for reasons best known to it. Apparently, the consideration that she was appointed during the NDA regime was weighing heavily in the mind of the committee, she observed. |
|
Hospitals, health centres
to be upgraded
Dharamsala, July 5 It has been decided to upgrade the civil hospitals in Nurpur and Dehra subdivisions of Kangra district as part of the scheme. Additional infrastructure in the form of a blood bank, operation theatres and all basic requirements would be provided in the hospitals to convert them into first referral units (FRUs) having a sanctioned strength of 100 beds each. Giving details, Dr K.L. Gupta, Chief Medical Officer, said the two hospitals had been identified to ensure that the people from the rural areas did not have to travel more than 15 km to seek quality treatment. Even though the guidelines of the scheme provided that one civil hospital and one health centre had to be upgraded to a
FRU, we sought a special relaxation for Kangra district to include two civil hospitals. “Our technical committee was of the view that identifying a health centre located in an isolated area would eventually nullify the entire initiative as it has been noted that most specialists do not want to be posted at such far-flung places. Otherwise, we had the option of upgrading the health centres at
Dadasiba, Gaggath or Thural,” he said. To qualify as FRUs, the two hospitals, once upgraded, would have qualified
gynaecologists, paediatricians and anesthetists, besides facility for blood transfusion and allied services. “The objective is to provide referral services to women and new-born babies in the rural areas within 15 km of their location,” he said. The funds for the project would come from the Centre under the National Rural Health Mission and Himachal Pradesh was one of the states selected in the first lot for upgradation of hospitals/health centres, Dr Gupta said. He further said as per the new norms, Ayurvedic doctors were not authorised to conduct ultrasound unless they had a qualified radiologist having a masters degree. “If any such case is detected the licence of the doctor would be cancelled. Further, we are also planning action against Ayurvedic doctors doing medical termination of pregnancy. We are involving female heath workers, besides the
BMOs, SMOs and NGOs to conduct raids on the premises of defaulters,” he said. |
|
Dental colleges yet to notify fee structure
Solan, July 5 The high court had constituted a committee headed by Justice V.P. Bhatnagar to study the various aspects of the fee, including genuine expenditure of the four colleges. The four colleges, including two in Solan district and one each in Sirmaur and Mandi district had put forth their detailed suggestions before the committee and had been hopeful of the fee structure being decided by June 30. With the first counselling for the BDS course due to begin from July 15, the managements of the colleges are now unable to answer the queries from the aspiring students. The students are supposed to deposit the fee at the time of seeking admission on July 15. A spokesman of the colleges said it was already late and it would be difficult to inform students about the fee structure well in time. They were also worried about the fact that the students, who had now entered the second year by depositing 50 per cent fee as notified last year after a high court decision were also awaiting on the fee notification. The high court had put on hold the last year’s fee structure after a PIL was filed by a section of students against the exorbitant fee. The students, who had secured admission, had been directed to deposit 50 per cent fee till the new fee structure was notified. |
|
Lecturer dies in mishap
Kangra, July 5 Mr Virender Thakur, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Kangra said that Gulbir Singh (42) of Mumta village was on way to his school in Ranital when his motor cycle went off the road and fell at least 40 feet down into Banner Khad. Mr Sudhir Sharma, a resident of Nagrota Bagwan was also travelling on his motor cycle as pillow rider when the accident took place. Both were injured in the accident and were admitted in the local Civil Hospital where Gulbir Singh succumbed to his injuries. Sudhir Sharma was under medical treatment in the hospital, the police said. The police registered a case under Sections 279 and 337 of the IPC. |
|
BJP condemns Ayodhya attack
Shimla, July 5 He said initially the Congress governments alongwith its pseudo secularist allies, used to appease minorities and now it was also placating the fanatic elements in the minorities. Mr Bhardwaj warned that any laxity in curbing such incidents would only encourage militancy. He also criticised Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, for the security lapse at Ayodhya. |
|
B.Sc (I) result declared
Shimla, July 5 Mr K.P. Doger, controller of examinations said that in all 7838 students appeared in this examination out of which 3941 were declared successful. The pass percentage came to 50.28. |
| HOME PAGE | |
Punjab | Haryana | Jammu & Kashmir |
Himachal Pradesh | Regional Briefs |
Nation | Opinions | | Business | Sports | World | Mailbag | Chandigarh | Ludhiana | Delhi | | Calendar | Weather | Archive | Subscribe | Suggestion | E-mail | |
