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Strategy for Lok Sabha elections
Governor gives polio drops; praises anganwadi workers
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Post-Mumbai, festivities toned down
Rs 86 cr grant for Gurukul varsity
Conference on forest conservation concludes
Surprise inspection at dist jail
Van Gujjars hold protest
Jagata elected bar council president
DL Cricket Club beat Doon Warriors
LPG cylinder explodes, five injured
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Strategy for Lok Sabha elections
Dehradun, December 21 Speaking to mediapersons here today, Moghe said that yesterday he met Sangh Parivar members and BJP activists and detailed discussions, pertaining to the next general elections, were held. Giving details about the meetings, Moghe said that it was decided to prepare a list of the issues which the party would rake up during the elections. “On December 27-28, the state executive committee of the Uttarakhand BJP would convene its meeting. We would ask the executive committee to give its suggestions about the strategy to be adopted for contesting the five Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand,” he disclosed. Moghe said that after having thorough discussions, the party would finally prepare a blueprint for the Lok Sabha election strategy to be adopted specifically for Uttarakhand. Replying to a media query about the issues for the general election, he said that one of the main issue would be achievements of the two-year-old Khanduri regime. “As far as national issues are concerned, it would be decided at the party’s national level. But poor economy and terrorism are the two national issues which will obviously be there,” he said. Moghe also said that Chief Minister Maj Gen B.C. Khanduri (retd) and state president of BJP Bachi Singh Rawat would be jointly holding a special interaction with party activists in Dehradun, Haldwani and Srinagar. “The two leaders would be looking into the grievances if any of the BJP workers. The leaders would also listen to the suggestions of the activists with respect to the elections. After that, the election strategy would be formulated,” he said. When asked that whether everything was fine between party activists and the government, he said that certain issues are always there and for that reason only, it has been decided that the CM and party chief would together meet party activists. When asked whether the move of the Khanduri government to bring out as many as 54 government positions of chairmen and vice-chairmen of various boards and committees out of the purview of the Office of Profits Act is an exercise to please dissidents, Moghe denied this. However, when asked why the BJP had trained its guns against Tiwari government on the same issue, he failed to give any satisfactory reply. |
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Governor gives polio drops; praises anganwadi workers
Dehradun, December 21 He was speaking at the start of the Pulse Polio campaign today. He appreciated the role of ‘anganwadi’ and other health workers without whose effort the mission to eradicate polio would not be possible. On the occasion, the Governor also administered pulse polio drops at Governor House pulse polio booth to children. HARIDWAR: As part of the pulse polio drive, a total of 1,593 polio booths in the district today administered polio drops to children. District magistrate Shailesh Bagholi started the campaign by giving polio drops to a child at Chandi Ghat polio booth. The booths at Chandi Ghat and other slum areas were marked as sensitive and special efforts were made to give drops to every child in these areas. Polio drops were also given to children of the tourists visiting the holy city. The administration had put up special booths at the railway station, bus station and prominent tourist spots. Chief medical officer Dr Anil Bhatnagar thanked the health supervisors for their efforts. He said that last time 3,49,493 children were given polio drops while this time more than 2,75,000 would be given polio drops. Chief Medical officer Dr P.K. Bhatnagar and deputy CMO Dr Suresh Aggarwal thanked the supervisors, volunteers, NSS students and the people for their contribution in making the world polio free. |
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150 checked for diabetes
Dehradun, December 21 The chief guest, Congress Party, spokesperson, Surya Kant Dhasmana said that Diabetes is a modern age affliction, caused due to the changed lifestyles as most of us are eating unhealthy food and taking very little activity,” he said. He
said that once the disease takes root, it begins to attack the main organs of the body. On the other hand, Dr Bhushan Kumar, who attended the patients, emphasised on the need to lead a regulated life, once the disease is detected and gave tips on leading healthy and active life. The free health camp
was organised at Dr Bushan Kumar’s Clinic (Astley Hall). Rajneesh Juyal, secretary of Doon Diabetic Association said that the organisation has been holding free health camps since the last one and a half year. “Since there are large number of poor patients who cannot afford Glucometers, we thought of distributing them at
the camp,” added Rajneesh Juyal. |
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Post-Mumbai, festivities toned down
Dehradun, December 21 “This year we are not experimenting with food menu because of Mumbai attacks and decorations are being kept to the minimum,” said M.P. Singh, manager of Nirulas. “Last year we organised various functions on Christmas and New Year eve, but this year we are not doing anything on a large scale. We are only holding our food festival from December 24 to 28,” said Magan Bhandari of Great Value hotel. “The effect of attacks on the masses is so heart-rending that I am sure
celebrations would be subdued in other cities as well,” said Rina, a college student. “How can we even think of celebrating when our fellow Indians have died? Our menu is the same old one and no new schemes are added,” said Ravinder, general manager of
Pizza Hut. “We generally celebrate Christmas and New Years’ in a grand manner, but this year we are not going to have a bash because many innocent people have been killed,” said Amit Gupta, a front office executive of Ajanta continental. “Last year, we organised a big party at home but this year we will offer prayers and have only a small get together,” said Aman David, a resident. “Till now we have got no order from our main office to announce special discounts for Christmas. Our old menu with the same discounts will be there ” said Omair Faruk of Dominos. “Only a candlelight dinner with drinks is planned for December 25, but last year we had a bash as we organised games and a live band performance,” said Ahilaksh Kaidka of ‘My Wife’s’ place. “We will just pray; after such attacks we can’t afford to party,” said Gaurav Desouza, a resident. |
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Rs 86 cr grant for Gurukul varsity
Haridwar, December 21 A meeting in this regard was held between University Grant Commission chairman, Prof. Sukhdev Thaurat, joint secretary of Human Resource Development Ministry, Sunil Kumar, finance advisor S.K. Roy and Gurukul University Vice Chancellor, Prof. Swatantra Kumar in UGC, New Delhi, this week. "I asked the UGC to give at least Rs 100 crore to the University on implication of the OBC reservation but UGC gave us Rs 86 crore for infrastructure development," said Prof. Swatantra Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Swatantra Kumar. This grant is highest monetary grant in the history of Gurukul and would help the university immensely. The sanctioned amount has to be spent within three years and the first installment of Rs 13 crores by the end of this month will be available to the University. According to the
reservation for the students, new posts for the teachers and non-teaching staffs have to be created. For this 315 teaching and 205 posts for non-teaching staff will be created. In this regard, secretary HRD, Sunil Kumar, directed the UGC to form a committee for creating these posts and inform University about its recommendations. |
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Conference on forest conservation concludes
Dehradun, December 21 The meeting expressed concerns over increased incidents of forest fires in summers. Sudden rise in the number of forest fire incidents this year was discussed and measures to be initiated were also pondered upon. It called for arrangements of fire fighting equipments apart from ensuring participation of community in the fire fighting efforts. The concept of observing Environment Day on 15th of every month was also taken up for deliberation. The principle chief conservator of forests Uttarakhand, R.B.S Rawat, called for observing environment day on the lines of Tehsil Diwas, to address the the problems of the villages living close to the forests. The PCCF also asked his conservators to make the new programme a success. The plantation programme for the next monsoon was also taken up for discussion. It was also informed that as many as 49,39,68,000 plant saplings have been planted by the department in last three years across the state. The meeting also called for planting broad leaf trees to safeguard the water resources at forests. Efforts to check illegal felling of trees were also discussed. |
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Surprise inspection at dist jail
Haridwar, December 21 The officials visited the jail without any prior information to the jail authorities. The team inspected all the barracks in the jail and also questioned the prisoners on various issues. The raid was conducted after considering the present security threat and some reports on prisoners having access to mobiles and drugs but no no such thing was found during inspection. The inspection team led by ADM, S.N Pandey told that nothing suspicious and illegal was found in the premise and everything was normal and under control. |
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Van Gujjars hold protest
Dehradun, December 21 The protesting Gujjars led by Noor Mohammed
sought the administration’s intervention to check “atrocities” committed
on them by the forest department. In a memorandum, they alleged they were being evicted by the forest authorities by force, despite the government having been directed
to constitute a committee to look into their rehabilitation. They also said they had with them ration cards and identity cards but certain Gujjars had been left out from the rehabilitation list due to “complacency” of the forest department. |
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Jagata elected bar council president
Haridwar, December 21 The results were declared late Saturday evening. Pradeep Jagata defeated his nearest rival Surendara Pal Singh Vakr by 78 votes while Anoj Garg got 217 votes against 130 votes polled by Rajvir Singh. Mohini Aggarwal, running for the post of joint secretary, defeated her nearest rival Dayaram Chanchal by a huge margin of 134 votes. The other candidates who emerged victorious were vice-president Namit Sharma, treasurer Gaurav Thakur, library head
Nisha Verma while Ajay Kumar Saxena got elected as income-expenditure superintendent. Chief election officer for the bar council election was Narendra Chauahan while Prabhakar Gupta assisted him. |
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1,500 students run against terror
Dehradun, December 21 It started from Gandhi Park and ended near RTO Office, Rajpur Road. Around 1,500 students from various schools including Droan International School, Apollo International School, Gautum International School, Shivalic Academy, Children Modern Academy and Glacier Public School participated in the run. |
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DL Cricket Club beat Doon Warriors
Dehradun, December 21 DL Cricket Club bowlers, Vinod and Vicky, ripped through the top order of Doon Warriors reducing them to 43 for the loss of 5 wickets. Their bowlers did not give any chance to Doon Warriors to make a comeback. It was Naveen, who gave some stability to the team with his innings of 46 runs. He helped his team score 152 runs. Vicky and Sudhi took 3 wickets each and Parmod and Vinod took two wickets each. Chasing a victory target of just 153 runs DL Cricket Club reached the target in just 25 overs. The team had a shaky start as it had lost three wickets for 36 runs. But thereafter, a good partnership between Bhupander and Mahavir help see DL Cricket Club reach the target with two wickets in hand. For Doon Warriors, M. Jafar picked up 3 wickets and Vikhyat took 2 wickets. |
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Doon Valley School celebrates annual day
Dehradun, December 21 Later, the school students presented a cultural programme. Awards were presented to students who excelled in various activities. In the inter-house competition, Siddharth Bhardwaj, Neha Joshi, Vishwas Mallik, Ujjwal Sharma, Kultar Singh, Siddhant Gurun and Anita Thapa. The Best house trophy was bagged by Vidhyanchal House. While Piyush Kaushal bagged the best male student award and Anita Thapa was best among the girls. The school also felicitated ex-student of the school, Ravi Pathak, who has been selected to the Rashtriya Indian Military College. |
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LPG cylinder explodes, five injured
Dehradun, December 21 The neighbours rushed all the five to Doon Hospital for medical aid. The victims are identified as Karan Veer, his sister- in- law Nisha, his wife Anita, their four-year-old son Akash and their neighbour’s three-year-old daughter, Tanu. According to Dr Navjeet Bedi, the condition of all the five victims is stable, with Karan Veer and Tanu receiving between 40 to 60 per cent burn injuries. |
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