Shimla, November 18
Despite police teams having been sent to different locations, there have been no fresh arrest of parents wanted in the HP CPMT case as they have all gone into hiding.

Even the two persons from Delhi and Ambala, who were expected to surrender before the police late last night, have had a change of mind. The parents of these two candidates had informed the police about their decision to surrender but it appears that they have decided otherwise.

Even though police teams have been sent to Mandi, Dharamsala and Chandigarh to arrest the parents of other candidates, yet all of them are untraceable. The Himachal Police has also got the custody of Jaijeet, the machine man who got the question paper out from Maxwell Printing Press in Lucknow. He had been arrested by the Punjab Police and is wanted by both states.

After the initial arrest of parents of six candidates who benefited from the paper leak, it was being expected that all 38 parents who allegedly bought the question paper would be arrested. “It appears that all of them would decide their future course of action after seeing the outcome of the bail plea of the six arrested parents,” said a police official.

The SP, Mr A.P. Singh, said the judgement of the bail plea by Mr Kuldeep Rao and others had now been reserved for Monday. As such the parents who could have surrendered were now likely to wait for the judgement on the bail plea of the arrested parents. 

Shimla, November 18
The state government today ordered the transfer and posting of 12 Himachal Administrative Services Officer, majority of them serving as Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM).

Mr Mr P.L. Negi, Additional Director in the department of Social Justice and Empowerment, has been posted as the State Project Director in the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyaan. Mr Subhash Chand Nanda, SDM, Amb, has been posted as Joint Director in the department of Consolidation of Hoardings.

Mr J.K. Katoch, SDM, Pangi, has been transferred against the same post at Keylong. Mr Mohar Singh Chauhan, AC to DC, Hamirpur has been posted as SDM, Bharmaur.Mr Prabhat Singh, AC to DC, Mandi has been posted as SDM, Pangi.

Mr Raghubir Singh, Land Acquisition Officer (LAO) in PWD, posted at Mandi, is now SDM, Kangra. Mr Harbans Singh, SDM, Bharmaur will take the charge of Assistant Settlement Officer, Solan.

Mr Subhkaram Singh, SDM, Udaipur, has been posted as AC to DC, Kangra. Mr Vijay Kumar, SDM, Kaza has been posted as LAO in the PWD at Mandi.

The SDM ,Keylong, Mr Rajeev Kumar, has been posted as AC to DC, Mandi. Mr Vivek Chandel, AC at Dharampur, has been posted as AC to DC, Hamirpur. Mr Mahesh Chand Bhardwaj, BDO, Darang, has been posted as SDM, Udaipur.

Shimla, November 18
The Himachal Government has taken a policy decision to provide two biswas of land to every homeless person so that they can build houses.

Stating this at the national conference of housing and human settlement, Hyderabad, Mr Kaul Singh Thakur, Irrigation and Public Health Minister, said every citizen had a roof over his head except in urban areas and that too due to migration of labour for employment opportunities.

Still there were a few slums in urban areas. There was hardly any land available either with the state government or the urban local bodies for the development of further housing stock.

He said the government had encouraged private participation of promoters by the enactment of State Apartment and Property Regulation Act wherein promoters were being issued licenses for building apartments.

The government was also seized of the drinking water problem to various urban areas of the state which was not available to the desired extent. He said providing basic infrastructure of roads, sewerage, solid water management was quite expensive in this hilly state.

However, with the inclusion of capital town of Shimla in the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and three district towns of Mandi, Hamirpur and Dharamsala under the Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for small and medium towns a beginning had been made to address this problem.

Shimla, November 18
The Himachal Government on Thursday increased the capital allowance by Rs 75 per month and also announced the release of another instalment of dearness allowance to its employees. The instalment became due from July, 2006.

The employees will now get 29 per cent of the basic pay as dearness allowance.

The decision was announced at a meeting of the Joint Consultative Committee held under the chairmanship of Mr S.S. Parmar, Chief Secretary, here.

He also announced an increase in the capital allowance from the existing Rs 100 to Rs 175, thereby delivering a benefit of Rs 75 to the employees posted in the capital to be paid from February this year.

The government further decided to constitute a high-level committee under the chairmanship of the Principal Secretary, Finance, to sort out the anomalies of pay disparities pending disposal at various levels.

Mr Parmar said the state government was considerate towards the genuine demands of its employees and had cleared all the dearness allowance instalments to them, besides hiking the capital allowance by Rs 75 per month. 

Kangra, November 18
The DAV management today imposed the no work, no pay rule in MCM DAV College here following boycotting of classes by lecturers in support of their demand for merger of 50 per cent ADA with their basic pay.

The lecturers held a demonstration and raised anti-Principal and anti-DAV management slogans on the campus for the second day today.

The Principal, Mr R.K. Ohri, told The Tribune that the DAV management had communicated to him that the no work, no pay rule had been imposed in this college as per an apex court ruling.

Some members of the no-teaching staff also joined the lecturers in the protest.

Meanwhile, Dr C.P. Kaushal. president of the Himachal Pradesh Non-Government College Lecturers Association, today demanded that the Chief Minister, Mr Virbhadra Singh, should intervene in the college crisis and appoint a government administrator to regulate its financial affairs.

Dr Kaushal threatened that if the management did not accept their demands, the lecturers would intensify their agitation.

He said the executive of the association today called on Mr Ohri and the local MLA, Mr Surender Kaku, in this connection.