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Dehradun city sitting on tinderbox
Haridwar needs to be extra cautious
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Use technology to boost agriculture in hills: Alwa
Haridwar Mahotsava
Students display vision, talent in rangoli, mehndi competitions
Shiksha Acharyas risk life to get regular jobs
Students get tips on presentation skills
Expert for curbs on boating at Asan barrage
Saravjeet wins debate contest
Welham Boys claim soccer title
Cricket: Carman, Asian Schools win
Akshat, Avishan selected for u-14 skating c'ship
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Dehradun city sitting on tinderbox
Dehradun, November 10 A survey by The Tribune found that almost all the godowns of the gas agencies are being run from the residential areas without following the basic fire safety norms. Though some of the agencies have installed fire extinguishers, these have expired or are not functioning. Basic safety norms like putting up sand bags and buckets have also been given a miss. “Our life and property is in danger, as any mishap can happen any time, but no one is bothered. Even people have not bothered to raise objection against the proliferation of these gowdowns in the city. They don’t come forward against the menace,” said a Dalanwala resident, whose house is situated near a gas agency. “We have written to the authorities several times to shift the gas agency from here, but nothing happened. I think they are waiting for some tragedy to happen only after that they would do something in this regard,” added a resident of Shastri Nagar. Dr VC Ramola, retired Chief Medical Officer at Doon Hospital, a resident of Shastri Nagar, said though his house was a bit far from Shiva Gas Godown, residents living near it were always at risk. Chandan Singh Jeena, Chief Fire Station Officer, said, “We cannot help it since it is government policy. This is the administration job to take action.” “We have written to the administration several times to shift these gas godowns. Earlier the population was less, but with the passage of time a lot of houses have come up and it has further aggravated the problem,” he added. “The administration has done nothing in this regard. There was also talks that the administration would give land to the agencies away from residential areas but no action was taken,” told the Chief Fire Station Officer.
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Haridwar needs to be extra cautious
Haridwar, November 10 With Haridwar being a world-renowned city in terms of religious affairs, tourism and now an emerging industrial city fire safety is a growing concern. Since the formation of a separate Industrial Integrated Estate where hundreds of companies and industrial units have been set up the issue assumes a greater importance. In the city, there is a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) plant situated in Bahadrabad. This plant is situated in industrial area but with rapid urbanisation and industrialisation many units have been set up near the plant. Here, adequate safety measures have been put in place and in a fixed span of time a mock drill and safety checking is done by the fire department officials and companies’ safety department. Fire Officer, Haridwar, SK Sharma states that in the bottling plant special emphasis is on the fire safety methods. Apart from in plant safety devices and check ups, fire department too makes routine inspection and till date has found the measures more than satisfactory. Plant officials mention that even fire departments’ vehicles and brigades are checked and the exhaust pipes in the brigades and water jeeps are closed with a special device so that even minute sparks don’t catch up fire inside the plant. Besides overhead water tanks have been made around the bottling unit especially keeping in mind the fire aspect. Also, special fire brigades have been deployed in industrial area so that they cater and reach the fire spot in factories at earliest. Station Fire Officer SIDCUL AK Aghri informs that industrial units are briefed about the security aspect and the need to follow them. On regular basis fire awareness workshops and drills are organised and sensitive areas are earmarked. But recent fire in two factory units in which one factory manufacturing ACs and television tubes had gutted completely. Though no human casualty occurred, lakhs of material got damaged. This happened due to the negligence from the company management side.
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Use technology to boost agriculture in hills: Alwa
Nainital, November 10 Speaking at the inaugural session of the three-day Uttarakhand State Science Congress, which got under way at the GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, today, Alva said: “This can be achieved by halting the conversion of cultivable agricultural land into Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and instead empowering farmers with technologies for increasing the production and raising their income for a better life.” The Congress is being organised by the university on its campus in association with the Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology (UCOST). Alva also said the wellbeing of Uttarakhand’s mountains was very crucial. She advocated improved technologies for women farmers of the state and expected to get suitable recommendations by the congress in this regard. Alva further added that food adulteration needed to be tackled on an urgent basis by adopting zero-tolerance policy and enforcing strict legislative measures. She said: “Uttarakhand’s fertile land today produces 60 lakh tonne of fruit and four lakh tonne of vegetables, which should be saved from wastage by creating post-harvest and marketing facilities and setting up of food processing units.” In his welcome address, the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Dr BS Bisht, said the university had played a great role in starting the Green Revolution in the country and had been helping the farming community by setting up extension and outreach stations. He also talked about the education research and extension programmes of the university. He said: “Following the agenda of generating science and technology for farmers by developing technologies for different agro-ecological zones, the university has been formulating programmes and conducting researches suited to the socio-economic and cultural realms of the agrarian society.” The Director, UCOST, Dr Rajendra Dobhal, said the three-day congress is based on the theme- “Promotion and adoption of rural technologies in Uttarakhand” under the global theme “Heal, Fuel, Feed the World”. “It will help scientists to exchange the ideas among themselves. The congress will also help in identifying 40 young scientists for their support and promotion,” he added. On this occasion, lifetime achievement awards were conferred upon Prof AN Mukhopadhyay (agricultural sciences), Prof SK Joshi (physical sciences) and Prof AN Purohit (Life Sciences). Among prominent scientists present on the occasion were Prof GJ Santhanam, Adviser, Department of Science and Technology, Dr VPS Arora, Vice-Chancellor, Kumaon University, Dr BP Purohit and Dr DP Uniyal from UCOST and Dr BM Sharma, Director, Society of Pollution and Environmental Conservation Scientists.
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Haridwar Mahotsava
Haridwar, November 10 If the last year it was Uttarakhand’s musical legend Narendra Singh Negi, this time it was “Jagar Samrat” Preetam Bharatwan and established woman singer Meena Rana who ruled the hearts of the audience. The audience in the hall packed to capacity and others who watched the two leading singers live on big screens installed outside the venue at the Rishikul maidan were mesmerised at the performance of the two singers. As was expected and is the norm with Bharatwan, he began the show with a jagar and as soon as he sang “Narayani Mata Surkandi”, the whole atmosphere was filled with religious fervour. With this rendition, the stage was set for the musical night and what followed was applause, clapping and people singing and dancing to the tunes of the singer. He sang almost his super hit scores and also enthralled the audience with lesser heard but heart-touching scores. From “Bangladesh kala danda ma ladai lagi cha”, “Danda banti alloo”, “Mijaj meri saujanya”, “Binduli rat raige jara si”, “Baat na hui saruli” and “Band Amravati” to “Sundara chori”, all, be it children, young or adults, danced to the tune of the songs. Meena brought alive the hill culture and tradition with her melodious songs. In between comedian Rajesh Joshi with his comic acts made the audience laugh. Meanwhile, talking to mediapersons on the sidelines of the mahotsava, Bharatwan, who has more than 50 audio cassettes and albums to his credit, owed his success to concentration and taking music as a worship. Bharatwan, who is one of the two judges for singing talent show “Jhoomigo”, which is telecast on E-TV, termed it as a nice platform for upcoming singers hailing from Uttarakhand. He said there was immense talent in the state and that was proved by the skill and talent of singers performing at the show. But, he had a piece of advice for the younger generation who wants to achieve fame and popularity instantly. It’s not right to follow the shortcut route as it’s only temporary, but by working hard and concentrating on singing wholly, one can gain a long-term success. Bharatwan condemned the cheap and remix music which was being produced these days. These kind of cheap music had only a shorter life while original and melodious music was heard for a longer time. It had been proved with people demanding original melodious scores of theirs despite today’s musical market flooded with cheap and pirated albums. On his recent tour of the US, where he was felicitated by the Uttarkhand Association of America, Bharatwan said wherever Indians were settled, one could find Uttarakhandis.
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Students display vision, talent in rangoli, mehndi competitions
Haridwar, November 10 In the rangoli event, students displayed their vision and thinking via colours to perfection. Students made designs of gods, landscapes, flowers and also depicted various social issues through their rangolis. In the mehndi competition too, girls showcased their skill and talent by crafting beautiful designs on the spot. College Principal Dr Sangeeta Vidhyalankar cited the importance of sports and other cultural events as they develop students’ personality wholly and make students hone their extra-curricular and skills in their respective field of interest. Thirtyseven students participated in the mehndi competition, while in the rangoli competition 22 students participated. The results will be announced on the final day of the annual function.
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Shiksha Acharyas risk life to get regular jobs
Dehradun, November 10 The Shiksha Acharya has been undertaking agitation for the past few months seeking absorption in the regular teaching service in government schools. The agitators had recently taken out a rally from the Vidhan Sabha in support of their demands. They said: “Our sit-in outside the Vidhan Sabha has entered 300 days. As long as 1,745 Shikshask Acharyas are not absorbed by the government we will continue the stir.” They demanded immediate absorption of Shiksha Acharyas at education guarantee centres, alternative study centres, primary and higher learning centres. They said they would continue to agitate before the Election Model Code of Conduct is imposed.
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Students get tips on presentation skills
Nainital, November 10 Prof and Head of Department Dr B Kumar while stressing upon the need to improve communication skills, underlined that in this era of cut-throat competition, students need to refine their presentation skills. “It is not what you say, but how you say that matters,” he said. Associate Prof Dr Shivender Kashyap emphasised the importance of poise and confidence during presentations. “As in life so in presentation, controlled communication does wonders,” he said. The programme was focused on providing anxiety training, relaxation exercises, systematic techniques of preparation and handling question and answer sessions. The programme was organised by postgraduate students of the department. They played active role in conducting ice-breaking excises and management of training
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Expert for curbs on boating at Asan barrage
Dehradun, November 10 With over 35 years of field-research experience in natural hisatory, Hussain said boating at Asan wetland in Dehradun district continued to be most disturbing for the winged guests. “Boating at Asan causes a lot of disturbances and restrictions on such activities should be very much in place, at least in the core bird area,” Hussain said at the conclusion of second The Great Himalayan Bird Count in Dehradun. Hussain, who was introduced to birding as research assistant in a bird migration project of the BHNS way back in 1969 and has been participating in many field assignments and ecological expeditions of late orthinologist Salim Ali, categorically said Asan Conservation Reserve held much importance as wetland and was a perfect case study for an in-depth understanding of the migration of birds during winters. “But, much of studies on the migration pattern linked to Asan need to be done,” Hussain said, calling for a comprehensive study on seasonality of birds vis-ŕ-vis Asan particularly on a week-to-week basis. He described Asan as important transit point for the migratory birds on way to down south. On reports of lesser arrival of birds in Uttarakhand so far this season, Hussain, a participant to Bonn Convention, Biodiversity Convention, Ramsar Convention and International Ornithological Congress, said it was not proper to come to a conclusion on the number of arriving migratory birds to the region. “While some of the migratory birds may have left for downward migration, many more were still to come,” he observed. Hussain also did not rule out the possibility of the Tehri Dam reservoiur and other manmade water bodies becoming an attraction for migrating birds in the days to come.
Himalayan Bird Count concludes
Dehradun, November 10 Chief guest and Chief Information Commission Dr RS Tolia appreciated the efforts of the ARCH towards promoting bird watching in the state. He said Uttarakhand was bestowed with a number of water bodies and so the state had an immense potential for bird watching. Earlier, founder president of ARCH Prateek Panwar said there had been a tremendous response to Bird Count this year.
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Saravjeet wins debate contest
Dehradun November 10 The topic of the debate was “Use of mobile phones by students”. The runner-up was Sneha Deoli of The Presidency School and Saravjeet Singh of Selaqui World School lifted the winner’s trophy. Air Marshal G Sen (retd), Indian Air Force was the chief guest, who gave away the prizes. Other dignitaries present at the event were Group Capt S Amanullah, President, Bala Hissar Academy, SK Chopra, Amin Durrani and Principal of the school.
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Welham Boys claim soccer title
Dehradun, November 10 Both the teams played a goalless match in the stipulated time. The teams also locked draw in the penalty shoot-outs and the match was decided via sudden death penalty shoot-out in which Welham Boys won 5-4. Earlier the first half was dominated by Summer Valley. It made most of the goal attempts but didn't get success. On the other hand, the wining team had less possession of the ball. A few of the goals attempted were nicely stopped by the goalkeeper of Summer Valley. A Welham forward hit a beautiful shot but it hit the pole. Thus, the first half remained goalless. In the second half, the Welham Boys were seen in full confidence and totally dominated the half though it couldn't score a goal. The team focused on forward while the Summer Valley team just remained a mere defender in the second half. The goalkeeper of Summer Valley did a marvelous job for this team. He made several exemplary saves for his team. The team otherwise could have lost the match much before. The losing side could have capitalised in the later part of the half but there was hardly any forward ahead. All its players remained behind and kept on playing the role of defenders.
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Cricket: Carman, Asian Schools win
Dehradun, November 10 CSD’s opening pair of Raman (51, not out) and Tushar (40) gave a solid start to their team. The half-century of Raman was studded with five boundaries. He remained unbeaten and supported other batsmen in the win. Tushar was caught by Mukul on the delivery of Gitang. After his departure first and second order batsmen went cheaply and couldn’t support Raman from the other end. Manvinder went for duck while Prince got bowled out on 12 runs on the delivery of Arpit. It was Shashank who scored 45 runs and remained on the pitch with Raman till the team achieved the target of 190 runs. Earlier batting first Hilton School scored 189 runs in the stipulated 25 overs. The Hilton School batsmen failed to convert their individual scores to a big number and went cheaply one by one. The main batsmen of the team failed to score. Shankar (42) was the top scorer for Hilton. He also hit a towering six in his cameo knock. Mukul made 27 run and remained the other principal scorer for the team. The another match of the day was proved one-sided as The Asian School easily defeated The Aryan School by 99 runs. The Asian School won the toss and elected to bat first. They mounted a big total 183 runs in the allotted 25 overs. Vaibhav (48) was the top scorer for his team. He missed his half-century by two runs as while playing a shot he got caught out. Abhhimanyu and Bhavesh were other principal scorers scoring 28 runs each. The team scored 183 runs in the allotted 25 overs. Chasing a modest total, The Aryan School never seemed in its colours. It lost early wickets, which led to its downfall. Vipul with 20 and Afzal with 19 runs were the only batsmen who could score two-figure number. The team got all out on a meager total of 83 runs.
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Akshat, Avishan selected for u-14 skating c'ship
Dehradun, November 10 Both the skaters had got first and second place in the under-14 age category in the Regional Skating Championship held in Mussoorie. In the championship, skaters from Kendriya Vidyalya of Merath, Pauri, Massoori and Dehradun had participated. The parents of both the skaters gave the credit of the success of their children to their coaches Arvind Gupta and international coach Gulab Chaudhary who worked hard with them.
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