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C’wealth Games: Doon’s flowers to spruce up Delhi
District Women’s Hospital
Demand for Tanakpur-Bageswar Rail Link
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Sahil’s blitzkrieg helps SJA down PRMR
One-sided matches on Day 1 of dist b‘ball meet
Summer Valley cagers win
Second national summit on Nov 14
Winter Games from January 24
Gurukul girls rock at annual day function
2-day workshop on astronomy from Nov 14
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C’wealth Games: Doon’s flowers to spruce up Delhi Dehradun, November 11 As many as 1.5 lakh potted plants comprising both floral and ornamental ones have been prepared at the FRI nursery and were all set for delivery to Commonwealth Games Division authorities. The FRI has to contribute 3 lakh flowering and ornamental plants for the Games. The Forest Research Institute (FRI) had to pull up its socks to meet the October deadline. The work turned out to be all the more challenging as these plants need to flower during the course of the Games that falls between October 3 and 14. “We are ready with 1.5 lakh plants and are awaiting a green signal from Commonwealth Games authorities to transport these,” Director FRI SS Negi said. He said the pending work was on on a war footing and the FRI was comfortably placed to provide the assigned number of potted plants on time. Gudhal, pansutia, bougainvillea, casia glusia, gardenia aclica and a variety of ornamental bamboos have found a place in the first consignment. The Games authorities have, however, asked the FRI to keep the plants with
itself for the meantime in order to ensure better maintenance. Apart from putting to use the expertise of its botanists, the institute has hired additional daily-wage gardeners to cope with these
work requirements. Similarly, the FRI nursery, which initially had the capacity for 8,000 plants, too has
been extended to make up for the Commonwealth assignment. “We have created more space inside the nursery and put plants in bigger polythene bags,” said SP Singh, in charge, FRI Nursery, and Forest Range Officer. “While the first consignment of plants is ready, we expect to prepare all potted plants by June,” said SP Singh. Interestingly, the climate of Delhi in October had been taken into consideration while preparing potted plants. These flowers have longevity and have to begin blossoming during October. While Commonwealth authorities are waiting for the appropriate time to take the delivery of potted plants from the FRI, the institute certainly has been incurring maintenance cost. The FRI’s contribution to Delhi in terms of environment conservation has been unparallelled. The institute has working to clean the Yamuna through root-zone treatment. The system involves the introduction of ipomea shrubs infused with bacteria in unclean water to help get rid of impurities. The institute has also been entrusted with the task of creating a butterfly park in Delhi and the institute’s entomology department has already started working on the project. Delhi’s Butterfly Park will assist in conducting research on butterflies and also put
the national capital in the butterfly map of the country. FRI’s survey on health of Delhi trees some time back had also received widespread appreciation and its scientists are already engaged in the treatment of many sick trees in Rajpath and other key areas. The FRI has been in the thick of news ever since the Commonwealth Games authorities assigned it the onerous task of providing potted plants for the event.
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District Women’s Hospital
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anaesthetist Dehradun, November 11 Lacking vision and direction, the focus of the health authorities continues to be unidirectional with only pregnancy related cases being attended to. The rush of patients with specifically these types of complications has risen as the health authorities have been unable to strengthen the primary and secondary medical infrastructure adjoining Dehradun. So, patients from Raipur, Doiwala, Chakrata, Prem Nagar and other small towns flock to the District Women’s Hospital. “As the district hospital at Doiwala, Combined Hospital at Prem Nagar and Raipur Primary Health Centre (PHC) continue to have skeletal staff and poor infrastructure, pregnancy cases are not being attended to there. The rush at the District Women’s Hospital can be
considerably reduced if patients go to these centres but that is not As a result, surgeries pertaining to removal of stone from gall bladder, complications in the polyps uterus, fibroids have never been conducted. Several senior qualified doctors
have retired without ever putting to practice their skills and training while those working at the hospital feel the pinch with their qualifications remaining underutilised. Even the Coronation Hospital located in Dehradun with three lady doctors continues to have very few patients. The hospital has been unable to attract patients. As a result, the pressure on the Doon Hospital continues to be
the same. Poor publicity is one of the reasons attributed to the low turnout
of patients. In fact, the important component of any surgical team, an anaesthetist, has not been appointed after the last one was posted to Doon Hospital. “The job of the anaesthetist requires round-the-clock deployment, but such has been the state of affairs at the hospital that they have usually relied on some part-time arrangement and on Doon Hospital, if a need arose.” Time and time again, the limited nature of the operations being undertaken at the hospital has forced patients to flock to private hospitals. “After I was told that the District Women’s Hospital does not conduct surgeries for the removal of stone from the gall bladder, I am looking at other options,” said Rekha Tiwari, a patient.
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Demand for Tanakpur-Bageswar Rail Link Pitthoragarh, November 11 “Our team, including five women, started an indefinite dharna from November 9 after travelling 180 km
on foot from Bageswar to Tanakpur to demand a railway link from Tanakpur to Bageswar,” said Kharak Ram,
secretary of the samiti on telephone from New Delhi. According to Kharak Ram, the 60-member group of the samiti started its padyatra from Bilona village in Bageswar to Tanakpur on November 3. “Our agitation received good support not only in Bageswar but also in Pitthoragarh and Champawat districts,” claimed Kharak Ram. Gusain Singh Dafauti, who led the march, said that despite the long-standing demand by Kumaoni people to link railway services up to Bageshwar, which would also meet the security needs on the China border, the Union government has not paid any heed. “The Railway Ministry had surveyed this 155-km-long route in 2006 that is estimated to cost Rs 2,250 crore, but despite the survey and subsequent appeals to railway ministers, work on the line has not started so far,” he said. Satpal Maharaj, a former Union Minister of State for Railways and now a Congress MP from Pauri Garhwal, has been very vocal to demand connectivity through railways in the hills. Presently a member of the Railway Advisory Committee, Maharaj was hopeful that railway connectivity could be achieved in four years. “After I mounted pressure on the Railway Ministry, Union Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee has agreed that new rail links will not be made only on economic criterion, but on social feasibility also,” said Satpal Maharaj. Maharaj said that besides the Tanakpur-Bageswar rail link in Kumaon region, he has proposed a four-faced rail link to Garhwal. At first, it is to be linked from Rishikesh to Devprayag, then Devprayag to Srinagar and then, Rudraprayag to Karanprayag in the fourth phase. “The railway line is essential for Uttarakhand not only for developing the region on the lines of Switzerland. With this, maximum number of
pilgrims will be able to have darshan of Char Dhams easily,” said Satpal Maharaj. The sangharsh samiti members at Jantar Mantar are demanding a written assurance from the Centre on the issue. “All Himalayan states are connected by railways. After rail link to Qazigund in J&K, a 52.7-km-long route from the border town of Sivoke in West Bengal to Rangpo of Sikkim has been sanctioned at an expenditure of Rs 1,339 crore, but our already surveyed rail line has been neglected,” said Gunsain Singh Dafauti. “Only if we get an assurance from the Railway Ministry, we will go back to our villages. Otherwise the dharna continues,” he added.
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Sahil’s blitzkrieg helps SJA down PRMR Dehradun, November 11 The winning team won the toss and chose to bat first. The opening batsmen of the team failed to score and returned cheaply. Abhik (1) got caught out on a delivery of Amit while another opener Aakash gave some fight, but also got caught out on 16 on a ball of Santosh. After their departure, SJA’s innings got a boost from a solid partnership between Akshay (53) and Sahil (72 not out). Both batsmen played sensible knocks and made the full use of poor deliveries. The top scorer of the match, Sahil, hit nine boundaries and a towering six. Akshay, who was ably supporting him at the other end, was unlucky as he got run out on 53. As this partnership broke, the RRMR could heave a sigh of relief. Sahil was later joined by Prabhanshu, who played a cameo knock of 29 runs in just 15 balls. With this kind of innings, SJA mustered a total of 220 for 5 in the allotted 25 overs. For RRMR, Santosh and Amit claimed two wickets each but gave away many runs, which cost the team in the long run. Chasing the target of 221 set by its rivals, RRMR couldn’t click even while batting. Its batsmen failed to perform in front of the bowlers of SJA who bowled with a tight line and length and gave them no chance to score. Ravjot (25), Zahid (13) and Aakash (11) were the only batsmen who could score in double figure. Other batsmen couldn’t even score respectable number. For SJA, Abhik claimed three wickets and Vineet pocketed two. Janmajay and Adish also got a wicket each. In another match of
the day, Guru Nanak Academy got the better of STC by 16 runs. GNA elected to bat first after wining the toss. Nitin was the top scorer for them with 25. Aditya (13) and Manav (11) were other principal scorers for the batting side. GNA could score 63 runs and got all out. Batting second, STC was bowled out at a meagre total of 47 runs. None of its batsmen could convert his individual score into a big number and went cheaply.
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One-sided matches on Day 1 of dist b‘ball meet Dehradun, November 11 In the first match of the day, The Heritage School trounced St Thomas College 32-7. Nidhi of the wining side scored eight points while Swati of St Thomas scored four points. In another lopsided match, Welham Girls School drubbed Jaswant Model School 42-4. Aishwarya top scored with nine points for Welham. Shikha could score two points for the losing side. Reenuka garnered six points to help Unison World School defeat St Mary School 12-9. Shagun also scored two points for St Mary but could not save her team’s defeat. Meanwhile, Doon International School, which yesterday claimed the Boys Basketball Trophy, was beaten by CGM girls. Anjali scored 14 for the winning side while Mehak scored six for Doon International. In the last match of the day, Summer Valley had to vie hard to edge past The Heritage School. Amina was the top scorer with 14 points while Anjali scored eight for the losing side.
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Summer Valley cagers win Dehradun, November 11 From the word go, Summer Valley School managed to put pressure on Shivalik and won the first quarter by nine points to zero. But to the credit of Shivalik School, they stormed back in the second quarter winning it 9-6. But that was the only chance that Shivalik dribblers got. Thereafter, it was an easy ride for Summer Valley that won the third quarter. Shivalik International came back again in the fourth quarter, but higher point score ensured Summer valley won the match 33-30. For Summer Valley School, the top scorer was Avinash with 19 points while Tejinder Singh of Shivalik International School scored 16 points. Meanwhile, in the match between Heritage School and Jude School, Heritage got a walkover. In another match, played between Seven Oak School and GRD School (Niranjanpur), Seven Oak School also got a walkover. In both instances, the team failed to turn up at the venue.
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Second national summit on Nov 14 Dehradun, November 11 Dr Anand Kumar, Professor, JNU, New Delhi, will be the main speaker. As many as 150 sociologists, researchers and various other social scientists will participate in the summit. It is hoped that in the end, they will arrive on some decisions, which will be of immense value in bringing out novel policies and programmes to fasten up developmental process in the state. Dr VK Sisodia, secretary, Uttarakhand Social Science, is in charge of the summit.
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Winter Games from January 24 Dehradun, November 11 Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank today gave instructions to the state sports authority to complete the work by November-end. He held a meeting with the officials concerned at Bejapur to today take stock of the preparations for the Games. He met technical adviser PS Pangati and gave instructions to hold a meeting with the officials concerned and finish the work on time. He also said the work at the ice-skating rink was in the last phase. Around 300 participants from eight countries are expected at the Games.
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Gurukul girls rock at annual day function Haridwar, November 11 From vocal to dance items, girls participated in numbers and displayed their talents. What set apart the event was that here girls also displayed classical dances with precision as well as pop and western dances. It was a mixture of Indian classical dances and western dance forms, making the fest a rocking one. In the dance section, Jyoti, Nidhi, Ritika, Lalita, Anupriya drew major applause while in vocal singing Pramila, Ritika, Hemlata, Neha Uniyal, Chanchal, Kalpana Kumari wowed with their singing skills. In group singing Babita, Kaushal, Megha, Pallavi, Disha, Vibha, Yashoda were appreciated most for their soulful rendition of songs.
Manav Bharti students awarded
Dehradun: Manav Bharti International School celebrated its 1st annual day today on the school campus. The event began with a welcome address and Saraswati vandana. The function was a blend of musical dance and drama. Students presented cultural programmes of different parts of India. Punjab’s giddha, salsa and Kashmiri dance were much appreciated by the audience. In the prize-distribution ceremony, students were acknowledged for their academic excellence and extra-curricular activities. Dr Himanshu Shekhar presented the annual report of the school. Matwar Singh Kandari, Uttrakhand Irrigation Minister, inaugurated the function by lighting the lamp. Vinod Khanduri, Mayor, Dehradun, BN Sinha, Principal of Center School, ONGC, and MS Kandpal, Vice-Principal of Welham Boys, were present.
Stepping Stones’ function
Dehradun: Stepping Stones celebrated it 27th annual speech and prize distribution day here today. The event was coalition of music, dance and prize distribution. The main attractions of the function were Punjabi, Haryanvi and Western dances. Vinod Chamoli, Mayor, Dehradun, was the chief guest of the event. Prizes for academics, 100 per cent attendance, good conduct, well dressed and extra-curricular activities were given away to students. Virendra Singh and Shreya Gupta won the prize for Best Boy and Best Girl, respectively. Other guests were R C Singhal, Principal of Cambrian Hall and Walsh.
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2-day workshop on astronomy from Nov 14 Dehradun November 11 A two-day seminar will be be led by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, and the Aryabhatt Research Institute of Observational Science, Nainital. The workshop will be held on the occasion of the birthday of the founder of the university, Mahant Indresh Das, and on the anniversary of the organisation. Twenty public schools and 40 students will participate in the meet to prepare telescopes under the guidance of IUCAA, Pune. These telescopes will be used for SKY SHOW on November 14 and donated to the respective schools, said Dr D Singh, Organising Secretary. “There will also be a popular talk programme open to the public and will be led by international astronomers,” elucidated Singh. Prof VA Bourai, Principal of the university, Prof Ram Naresh, HOD, Botany, Dr Padaliya, Dr Atul Kr Gupta, HOD, Chemistry, Prof Pradeep Singh, HOD, Geology, were also present at the press meeting.
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