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Work orders: The Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board (HPSEB) Technical Employees Union has sought to abolish the system of work orders and contractorship so that the wide scope of employment avenues to the poor educated youths could be generated. Lashing out at the government’s trend of promoting culture of contractors and work orders here on Monday, district president of the union Atma Ram alleged that these traditions were unhealthy for the clean working of the government and breading corruption. He demanded recruitment of new staff.
Photo I-cards: The ‘gaddi’ families of Bharmour tribal region in Chamba district have resented the unsuitable schedule fixed from September 20 to October 7 for making their election photo identity cards
(EPICs) by the Election Department. The representative of these families who met the mediapersons here on Monday said the schedule for making EPICs was not suitable to the gaddi families who are basically shepherds and some of them have moved down towards plains alongwith their livestock in this season. They demanded that some other appropriate time should be chalked out for preparing their EPICs according to their convenience so that they would not remain deprived of this facility.
Tribal art gallery: The Chamba Chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) has expressed concern over the inordinate delay in the setting up of a tribal art gallery and museum at Bharmour Chaurasi, a project which had been pending for the past several years. Despite repeated reminders of the INTACH, the building for the proposed gallery and museum could not be constructed so far. The INTACH has again urged the government to take necessary steps to set up the museum.Pension trust: The HPSEB pensioners association has described the formation of a ‘pension trust’ as anti-pensioners, which is an injustice to the pensioners and family pensioners of the board. In a statement issued here on Tuesday, H.K.Gautam, convener of the association, said to generate pensions from the dividends earned through investment in the share market by the HPSEB had given a big shock to the pensioners and family pensioners. Opposing the recently formed ‘pension trust’ by the government and its decisions, he said the verdict of the board would lead to the exploitation of the pensioners, which would jeopardise their interests. DALHOUSIE
Narrow escape: Four persons of a family travelling in a Maruti van had a narrow escape when the van swerved off the road and fell into a 100-metre deep gorge near Kundi on the Hobar-Kundi road in Bhattiyat subdivision of Chamba district on Sunday evening, according to a report received here on Monday. Those injured include Kishan
Chand, his wife Suvitro, daughter Pooja (11) and driver Garv Singh. The condition of the injured was stated to be out of danger. HAMIRPUR
Scouts’ function: A state-level jamboree of Scouts and Guides will be organised from October 19 to 24 at Government Senior Secondary School,
Hamirpur. Chief commissioner of the organisation O.P. Sharma said more than 300 students from schools would attend the programme that would be inaugurated by education minister I.D. Dhiman and Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal would be chief guest on the concluding day. KUMARHATTI
Founder’s day: Dagshai Public School (DPS) celebrated its 51st founder’s day at Dagshai, 4 km from here on Tuesday. The students presented a colourful cultural programme on the occasion. Director principal Dr Harjinder Singh Majhail welcomed the chief guest. He highlighted the role and achievements of the school. Health minister Rajiv Bindal addressed the gathering and called upon the requirement to impart quality education blended with moral fibre and spirituality. Later, he gave away prizes to students who had excelled in academics and co-curricular activities. NAHAN
Man found dead: PWD labourer Sukh Ram, a resident of Timbi village under Shillai
tehsil, was found dead in a trench near Ashiadi village. The body was noticed on Monday morning. It had been probably lying there for three days. Empty bottles of liquor were also recovered from the spot. Paonta DSP
V.S. Thakur said the post-mortem report had revealed that he died due to heavy consumption of liquor. He ruled out any foul play behind the death. NURPUR
Workshop held: A workshop on complete sanitation campaign was organised in collaboration with an NGO Samarapan Association at Bhadwar near here on Monday, which was presided over by local SDM Inder Bhardwaj. A large number of representatives of panchayati raj institutions of nearby gram panchayats were present in the workshop. The chief guest called upon the villagers to avoid open defecation and construct toilets in their houses. On this occasion Samarapan Association displayed a model of flush latrine prepared at a cost of Rs 600. SHIMLA
Minor raped: A 16-year-old girl of Dhami village near here was raped by a boy of the local ITI on Sunday night. A student of class X, the victim had come to the city with some relatives. The accused, Kameshwar, who was known to her, took her to his residence and raped her. The matter was reported to the police by her father on Monday evening. The medical examination of the girl has confirmed rape. A case has been registered and the accused arrested.
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Folk artistes’ meet: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages is organising a two-day folk artistes’ meet at
Leh, beginning on October 17. Over 150 artistes drawn from various parts of the state are likely to take part in this mega event that has been named as “Dhanak”. Cultural academy secretary Zafar Iqbal Manhas said the meet would help in understanding and bringing the three regions of the state closer. “Normally, such events were being organised either in Srinagar or Jammu, but this time we chose Leh with a purpose to know more about the folk dances of Ladakh region,” Zafar said.
Srinagar
HC to function on Oct 11: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court would function on October 11, registrar-general of the court, said here today. He said October 11 would be a working day in the court in lieu of the holiday observed on October 1 on account of
Eid-ul-Fitr.Army recruitment: An Army recruitment rally is being held from October 10 for three days at Leh in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, an official spokesman said today. He said the rally was being held at the Ladakh Scouts Regimental Centre, Leh, for the candidates of Leh and Kargil districts. The selected candidates would have to appear in a written test on October 26, he said.
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