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Daily-wage service to count for pension
Daily wagers to be regularised: CM
President Poll
Mankotia seeks Pratibha’s expulsion from Lok Sabha
Women mountaineers scale peak
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Cycling to spread AIDS awareness
No probe needed, says diplomat
Arrest of murder accused demanded
CM hints at creating hospital management cadre
Removal of plaques sparks controversy
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Daily-wage service to count for pension
Shimla, July 19
The court passed this order on a petition filed by the state government wherein it had challenged an order passed by the HP State Administrative Tribunal in this regard. The tribunal had allowed the petition and directed the state government to give minimum pension by counting half of the service rendered on daily-wage basis by the worker. Rules say the minimum qualifying service for pension is 10 years. In certain cases, the employees who have not completed 10 years on regular basis were declined the benefit of minimum pension by not taking into account the period for which they worked on daily-wage basis. Rejecting the contention raised by the state government, the court directed it to release pension by counting the tenure of daily-wage service as half tenure with regular service. The court further directed to release pension benefits by December 31, along with 7.5 per cent interest to the employees concerned.
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Daily wagers to be regularised: CM
Shimla, July 19 While interacting with daily wagers and part-time workers he said part-timers would be promoted to daily wagers and the eligible regularised staff would be given pensionary benefits on retirement. “The process of regularisation of the services of about 1,000 daily wagers of the Himachal Pradesh State Forest Corporation was being expedited,” he said. Himachal was the only state where regularisation of daily wagers was being carried out in a phased manner and 30,000 daily wagers with eight years of service had been regularized during the past four years.
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All MLAs cast vote
Tribune News Service
Shimla, July 19 There are 68 seats in the Vidhan Sabha but the effective strength of the house is 67. One seat fell vacant recently, following the resignation of P.K. Dhumal, who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Hamirpur constituency. The Congress has 43 members and six independents also support the party. The BJP has 16 members and enjoys the support of an independent, while the Lok Jan Shakti Party has a lone member. Suspended Congress leader was the last to exercise his franchise. All other Congress members led by Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh came together and cast their vote early in the day. Leader of the BJP legislative group, Ishwar Dass Dhiman, was the first to cast vote. He was followed by Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and other Congress members. The Congress did not take any chance and held a meeting with associate members last evening under the leadership of the CM in the presence of AICC observer Bhanu Pratap to chalk out its strategy. The CM appealed to the members to exercise their vote in favour of Pratibha Patil to create history as she would be the first woman President of the country.
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Mankotia seeks Pratibha’s expulsion from Lok Sabha Shimla, July 19
In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Som Nath Chatterji, he has urged him to take cognisance of the evidence provided by him in the shape of an audio CD containing conversation regarding money transactions involving Virbhadra Singh, Pratibha Singh and a senior officer and take action against her. He said if 11 MPs whose name figured in the “cash-on-camera” expose could be expelled from the House, there was no reason why a similar action should not be taken against Pratibha Singh. He said he had brought everything to the notice of the party high command, but no action was taken. He was left with no option, but to go public. What anguished him the most was that the high command, instead of taking action against the Chief Minister and his wife, penalised him and suspended him from the party. He said powerbrokers in Delhi were misleading Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Mankotia said the BSP would make considerable impact on the election scene as the third force. It would contest all seats on its own and had no truck with either the BJP or the Congress. Meanwhile, minister for social justice and empowerment Rangila Ram Rao has ridiculed the statement of Mankotia that the Congress had no future in the state and said he had lost his balance following suspension from the party. Mankotia was a political turncoat. He praised Virbhadra Singh in the House as late as the last budget session and now he was maligning him at the behest of his new masters. No one knows how long the honeymoon of Mankotia with the BSP would last as he could stab anybody in the back anytime.
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Women mountaineers scale peak
Kullu, July 19 This was stated by Deepu Sharma, leader of the expedition. She said the names of the team-members were Rinchen, Parineeta Chauhan, Kusum, Aiyingbi, Pushpa, Nabneeta, Neeta and Bidya, and among them the climbers who made it to the top are Rinchen, Parineeta Chauhan, Neeta, Kusum and Bidya. The expedition was sponsored by the Indian Mountaineering Foundation, Delhi, an apex body in the field of adventure sports. It was earlier flagged off by Rita Gombu, a veteran woman mountaineer from the premises of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation on June 28. Briefing details she said, the team reached Manali on June 29 and they were flagged off on June 30 by Col. H.S. Chauhan, director, Directorate of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali, and vice-president, Indian Mountaineering Foundation. |
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On Mission
Bilaspur, July 19 Addressing mediapersons at the office of the District Youth Services and Sports Department here last evening, he said that he left his home on May 27, 2004 and had cycled through Mayanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Shri Lanka and 26 states of the country till now. Devnath said he would visit Mandi and Kullu and cross to Leh-Laddhakh through Rohtang pass and visit Jammu-Kashmir. He said he is confident that he would safely complete his world tour in the year 2020 and by then he would spread awareness among crores of youths all over the world. He said youth of the country had great energy and they had the power and capacity to change the face of India but then they had to be hale and hearty first. He advised them to take all precautions against AIDS as precautions were the only effective medicine against the fatal disease. — OC
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Israeli’s Murder Our Correspondent
Kullu, July 19 It may be recalled that the police had detained four Israeli nationals who were reportedly accompanying the murdered Israeli, for investigations, and their passports were kept in police custody. G.D. Bhargava, SP, said he was told that the Israeli Embassy was not interested in the investigations but a case of murder under Section 302 of the IPC had been registered after the initial investigations. The SP said the names of two more persons feared to be involved in the case had come to light. He said "it would be too early to say anything, but we are heading towards the culprits". He said the four Israeli nationals were questioned by the police and they would not be allowed to leave till investigations were completed.
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Residents gherao DSP’s office
Nahan, July 19 According to sources, Pritam Singh, 19, was murdered by unidentified thieves with a sharp-edged weapon in the wee hours on July 14, in Shyampur village of Paonta subdivision. Paonta police had registered a case under Section 380 and 302 of the IPC but no arrest has been made so far. Residents from Shyam Pur, Khodowala, Gorkhuwala and Bhagani panchayats staged a dharna infront of the Paonta police station and raised slogans against Singhpura police. The people demanded the immediate arrest of the suspect named in the FIR by the family of the deceased. After the police failed to pacify the angry crowd, they moved towards office of the DSP, Paonta, and gheraoed it. The residents complained that instead of arresting the accused, the Singhpura police was harassing the complainant’s family and ‘doing nothing’ to solve the case. Agitators openly raised their demand for the transfer of chowki in charge of Singhpura police post and levelled several charges of inaction against him. They threatened to block traffic in the Trans-Giri area on Monday if by Sunday next, the case was not solved and the accused arrested. DSP, Shubra Tiwari, informed the agitators that Singhpura chowki in charge was not investigating the case and SHO of Paonta police station had been handed over the case. She expressed hope that the case would be solved shortly and assured that all persons named by the agitators would be arrested and no stone would be left unturned to nab the accused.
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CM hints at creating hospital management cadre
Shimla, July 19 This was state by the Chief Minister while reviewing the progress of work on the 500-bed Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College and Hospital, Kangra. He said the medical college was one of the ambitious projects of his government over which a sum of around Rs 400 crore was being spent. He said the college was being developed as a self-contained institution where latest medical education aids, equipment and machinery would be available for learning and examination purposes. He said besides spending around Rs 350 crore on infrastructure building, Rs 50 crore alone were being spent on procurement of quality medical equipment. He said work was nearing completion and the hospital would be dedicated to the people by the end of this month. He said his government would consider opening up of a separate division of the Public Works Department (PWD) exclusively responsible to carry the repair and maintenance of the entire complex, one each separate irrigation and public health and state electricity board sub-division to look after the related activities in the complex so as to make the complex self-contained in all respects. He said the administrative control of the division would be with the college authorities, while for technical purposes it would be under the control of the PWD. He said, if required, the government would create a separate hospital administration cadre to manage affairs of major health institutions so that services of medical specialists could be utilised gainfully for the benefit of the patients visiting these institutions.
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Removal of plaques sparks controversy
Solan, July 19 Chief Minister, Virbhadra Singh, had laid the foundations stones of the two buildings on Sunday. The villagers first discovered the missing plaque at the civil hospital and on enquiry, found that even the plaque placed at the local Government Senior Secondary School had been missing. Former pradhan Devinder Verma said it was shocking as to where the plaques had disappeared. The villagers wondered whether the foundation stones which were laid for the two buildings would come through or not. They said there was no certainty as to how the projects would come through as no budgetary provision had been made nor had any building designs been approved till now. PWD SDO V.K.Chauhan said the plaques had been removed by the department as a safety measure. He said they had been replaced with a painted version of the same bearing the Chief Minister’s name. The plaques would be put in place at the time of inauguration. He emphasised that since the brass plaques were costly they were generally removed after laying of the foundation stone.
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Metered taxis or not? The question has generated a lot of heat in the state. Readers are invited to send their views on the issue. Metered Taxis, |
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Allegation refuted
Hamirpur: The chairman of the HP Ex-Servicemen Corporation Ltd. Col. (retired) Mohinder Singh on Wednesday refuted the statement that few truck operators were unhappy with the functioning of the corporation. He said the corporation had been providing trucks to ACC Barmana for carrying cement and all registered truck operators were given equal opportunities for this.
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Letters
Murders of foreign tourists are becoming distressingly frequent in Himachal Pradesh.The latest one has been that of an Israeli national in Mandi. Foreign tourists usually come here for trekking and they are our honoured guests. Let’s make them feel at home.If our guests feel secure, it enhances the prestige and reputation of our country and, perhaps more importantly, it will allow the business of tourism that feeds a large number of people to flourish. Adventure sports by all means, but do make it secure. Sanya, ShimlaReaders are invited to write to us. Send your mail, in not more than 200 words, at himachal@tribunemail.com or, write in, at: Letters, The Tribune, Sector 29, Chandigarh – 160 030
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