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Stirs galore in capital Congress workers burn an effigy of the state government in Dehradun on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Anil P Rawat
Cong, BJP protests hit life in Haridwar |
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Campus Notes: SMJN College
Dehradun are winter cricket champs
The Dehradun team that won the Winter Cricket Festival in Dehradun on Tuesday. A Tribune photograph
Debate highlights rights of women
Vikram House students with the overall trophy being given by Principal Ramesh Chandra Sharma.
Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaud
Parent-toddler workshop held
Jimmy Eappen, a Delhi-based expert, gives a presentation at a workshop on techniques to teach toddlers
at Children’s Academy in Dehradun on Monday.
New courses in hospitality, management
Students create magic with colours
Khadak Bahadur soccer meet from tomorrow
School celebrates annual day
Amit, Praveen advance
Mahender stars in Contender’s win
Cross-country race from December 25
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Cong burns state govt’s effigy
Tribune News Service
Dehradun, December 22 Lal Chand Sharma, a former city president of the Congress, today condemned the police action on peaceful Congress workers and termed the action by the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government as dictatorial. Thousands of party workers led by state Congress President Yashpal Arya had marched to the state Assembly on the first day of the winter session yesterday to protest against the failure of the state government on all fronts. The police resorted to lathi charge when some Congress workers tried to break the police barricades. BJP stages dharna against inflation
Expressing resentment over rising inflation and a ban on quarrying in Uttarakhand, the Mahanagar unit of the Bharitya Janata Party staged a dharna at Gandhi Park today. Led by Rajesh Sharma, party’s convener, BJP workers said rising prices had hurt the common man the most. Uttarakhand, too, had been affected with Centre-fuelled inflation. They said despite repeated pleas of Uttarakhand, the Centre was yet to give its consent on lifting the ban on quarrying. “People of the state are facing a lot of problem due to the ban of quarrying. This had led to a sharp rise in the cost of construction material,” Sharma said. The BJP workers submitted to the authorities concerned a memorandum addressed to the President seeking intervention for ensuring a check on price rise and also facilitating Environment and Forest Ministry’s consent for the resumption of quarrying in the state. BJP nominated MLA Karen Mayer, district BJP secretary Jitendra Negi, Umesh Agarwal, Sushila Baloni and Goverdhan Bharadwaj were among the protesters.
CPI holds meetings with villagers
Dehradun district unit of the CPI today held a major rally in protest against rising prices here. This rally was held as part of a statewide protest by the CPI. Workers of the party, carrying placards, started the rally from the Gandhi Park. Riding motorcycles, they passed through nearby villages and held meetings. The workers were led by state CPI secretary Summer Pardri, who held meetings with villagers of Mehruwala and Telpura. The rally culminated at Balupur Chowk. The party workers demanded that the drought-affected farmers be provided with relief, vacant government posts be filled, a ban on recruitment be abolished and basic commodities be provided at fair-price shops.
Dharna by health
workers
Under the aegis of the Uttarakhand Matar-Shishu Evam Parivar Kalyan Mahila Karamchari Association, men and women health workers today held a dharna outside the Assembly House. The members marched to the House and then sat there raising slogans against the government. Their main demands include the formula of same work, same pay be taken into consideration while implementing the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, raising of travel allowance from Rs 75 to Rs 500 per month, auxiliary nurses and midwives be promoted as health workers, doing away with district cadre, creation of posts of block supervisors (both men and women) and raising salaries of part-time midwives. The agitated members said they had submitted a memorandum to Principal Secretary (Health) Keshav Desi Raju and DG Health CP Arya.
Diploma engineers take mass leave
Members of the Uttarakhand Diploma Engineers Federation today took mass casual leave and staged a dharna at the Gandhi Park in support of their demands. Diploma engineers working in almost all government departments participated in the agitation. A memorandum addressed to the Uttarakhand Chief Minister was also submitted. BD Joshi, district president of the federation, alleged that diploma engineers working in various departments had been struggling for the past nine years to get their demands fulfilled.
Bengali youths protest sans shirts
Members of the Bengali community, under the banner of the Bengali Students and Youth Organisation and the Bengali Kalyan Samiti of Shakti Farm, Udham Singh Nagar district, today staged a demonstration near the state Assembly House to press for their demands. They took off their shirts and protested against the apathy of the administration towards their demands. The Bengali community from erstwhile east Pakistan has been settled in the Shakti Farm area since 1950.They submitted a memorandum addressed to the CM.
Body seeks aid for non-aided schools
Agitated teachers, principals, managers and members of the Ashaskiya Asahayik Manyata Prapt Vidhyalay Sangathan, Uttarakhand, protested in front of the Vidhan Sabha here today. They tried to barge in the compound of the Vidhan Sabha, raising slogans against the working of the government. The members expressed resentment against providing no government help to them. They demanded aid for all 50 non-aided schools of Uttarakhand. Harak Singh Rawat, DGM, Dhanaulti, Regional Vice-President, Omkar Singh, Laxman Singh, Dr Jagmohan and Ramchandra Negi were present at the protest. Section 144 clamped outside House Section 144 has been clamped by the administration ahead of the winter session of the state legislative Assembly. Additional District Magistrate (Administration) Vinod Suman in a press statement issued today said different organisations were holding protests, dharnas and rallies ahead of the winter session, which could harm the smooth functioning of the session. And in context of these activities Section 144 had been brought into force. He added that during the session no one would collect lathi, swords, hockey, bricks, stones and other violence prone tools. Also there was a ban on slogan shouting, use of loudspeakers and provocative lectures.
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Cong, BJP protests hit life in Haridwar
Haridwar, December 22 The Congress’ protest saw the police arresting its workers and sending to jail when the situation got out of control. Congress workers sat outside the Kotwali police station against the police action. The name of Rawat is missing from all inauguration plates. Congress workers destroyed these plates after their ultimatum deadline for getting the name of the parliamentarian inscribed on these got expired today. Earlier, the Congress had lodged a protest with the mela administration about the non-inclusion of the MP’s name on the plates. The administration and the police were caught unawares by the move of the Congress workers. Led by city Congress chief OP Chauhan, the workers first took out a rally in the city raising slogans against the state government, mela administration and particularly local legislator Madan Kaushik. Terming it as a violation of healthy political and administrative norms, Chauhan said fear had engulfed the state government after defeat in the parliamentary elections in Haridwar. He said Rawat had won by a record margin in the whole state. Former Municipal Chairman Satpal Brahamachari and spokesperson for the MP Rajesh Rastogi also led protests in other areas. They were arrested but later let off. Meanwhile, at another protest at Dhirawali, women Congress workers lashed out at the state government for having a tyrannical attitude. Led by Sonia Gandhi Uttarakhand’s president Subhadra Arya, all women workers said they would took to streets to expose the state government’s real face and the abuse of the police force. Cornering the mela administration for toeing the BJP line, former State Women Commission head Santosh Chauhan said there were nine seats in the Haridwar constituency and thus Harish Rawat as an MP represented all of them too. “So this is totally uncalled for not including his name on Kumbh works’ plates,” said Chauhan, who is general secretary of the Mahila Congress. The Uttarakhand Kranti Manch, too, has condemned the working of state government and mela administration for not obeying the protocol. JP Pandey, founder of the manch, said such an example would not be found in any part of the country. Among those who addressed the gathering were city general secretary Tej Prakash Sahu, Sanjay Chopra, Madhukant Giri, Virendra Shramik, Satya Narayan Sharma, Ravish Bhatija, Saroj Sahu, Gulshan Naiyar, Dr Sanjay Paliwal, Purushottam Sharma and Rajesh Shivpuri. Meanwhile, BJP workers block traffic at the Ranipur Mod against the rising inflation and a discriminatory attitude of the Centre towards Uttarakhand. Led by newly appointed district BJP head Om Prakash Jamdagni, party workers staged a dharna at city’s busiest market place at Ranipur Mod. With several district office-bearers and former state ministers taking part in the agitation, party activists blocked traffic leading to huge traffic jams in the city. Addressing the gathering, Jamdagni lashed out at the Congress for its inability to control growing prices of pulses and other essential commodities. He termed a “discriminatory” attitude of the Congress-led UPA at the Centre towards Uttarakhand as totally on mere political grounds. Former state cabinet rank minister Ram Moorti Veer said in the coming Maha Kumbh there would be a shortage of food. Huge traffic jams crippled life in New Haridwar city. The police force had to be deployed to regulate the traffic. For more than an hour the situation remained same as on the one side Congress workers were blocking the traffic flow and on the other the BJP workers left no stone unturned to make their agitation successful.
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NSUI burns effigies of CM, Kaushik
Tribune News Service
Haridwar, December 22 Priyanka Maini, member of the girl’s wing of the union, said it was high time the Central government intervened as just two weeks were left for the commencement of world’s greatest fair. Among the protesters were Pradeep Uniyal, Gaurav Giri, Darshan Lal, Ashish and Madhukar Upadhayay. Cleanliness drive
Students, particularly of the NSS wing, had carried out various tasks on the college premise as well in the city over the past week. A rally was organised in the city to make people aware about the ill-effects of polythene on climate. The students of the NSS wing were helped by their fellows from Rishikul Vidyapeeth Mahavidyalaya in holding the awareness drives at Rishikul Ghat, Malviya Ghat and nearby areas. Commerce Department head SK Batra urged the students to make aware their families and their neighbours about effects of polythene on
environment.
Seminar held
A seminar on job opportunities was held in the college auditorium. Career experts from various fields addressed students and discussed at length various career opportunities. Experts from various coaching institutes had a questionnaire session with the students.
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Dehradun are winter cricket champs
Dehradun, December 22 It was a fine batting display by Dehradun batsman who scored 249 runs in their allotted 30
overs. Opener Vishal set the momentum for Dehradun. He looked in fine touch and scored 65 runs off 56 balls. First-down batsman Vaibhav accelerated the run rate and went on to play a scintillating innings of 92 runs off just 60 balls. He smashed eight fours and five sixes. After Jaspal caught Vaibhav off the bowling of V
Arora, Amit Lara played a fiery knock of 60 runs off 35 balls. For
Uttarkashi, Sunil Chauhan, Vikas Arora and Imtiyazali took two wickets each. After giving a 250-run target to
Uttarkashi, Doon bowlers unsettled their opponents completely. They struck in the very first over to take the wicket of Uttarkashi opener Yuduur
Bisht, who went for a duck. The other opener, Jaspal Chauhan, too could not do much and was out for 13 runs. First-down batsman Imtiyazali tried hard to bring his team on track. He scored 36 runs off 36 balls along with Amit Chauhan who scored 73 runs off 67 balls. But once the Dehradun bowlers got rid of them, no other batsman showed any resistance and the whole team was bundled out for 182 runs in 27.2
overs. For Dehradun, Nishant Rana and Vaibhav Panwar took two wickets each while Rohit
Nautiyal, Sunny Rana, Vidhur, Dipankar took one wicket each. Yashpal
Arya, President of the State Congress Committee, was the chief guest on the occasion and gave away the trophy to the winners.
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Debate highlights rights of women
Dehradun, December 22 Around 10 students from Guru Ram Rai Public School, EC Road, Bindal, Brooklyn School, Sun Rise School and Rajiv Gandhi Navodya School participated in the debate. The competition was in Hindi and the topic was “Mahila sashaktikaran ek adhura sach”. The judges for the competition were Jagriti Dobhal and Krishna Khurana. Sadhna Sharma, founder president, and Nilima Garg, secretary of the association, addressed the gathering, comprising mostly women. They encouraged them to fight for their rights and told them that they should not feel themselves inferior to men. They also appreciated the students for participating in the debate. Jitender Mohan Sharma (Semwal), founder president of the association, was the chief guest of the function. He inaugurated the event by lighting the lamp. The debate began with a Saraswati prayer by Aarushi and Ananya, who also presented a Garhwali dance. Other prominent guests at the event were Raj Rawat, Shweta Rai Talwad, Prabh Saluja, Vibh Acharya, Archana Sharma and Gurdeep Kaur.
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Vikram House clinch overall trophy
Haridwar, December 22 In the overall category, Vikram House emerged first while Pratap House came second followed by Ashok and Arjun Houses. In the girls cycling race, Shilpi came first with Aiyesha and Shobha Bhandari coming second and third respectively. In the girls pot race, Shilpi came first followed by Prabha
Bhandari. In discus throw, Ramesh Chand Sati and Gaurav Kumar shared the first two positions while in the senior 800m race, Rohit Kushwaha and Himanshu shared top
honours. In the 100m race, Ashish Bisht and Deepika won the boys and girls event respectively. Earlier, chief guest Gaurav Gupta, president of Rotary Club,
Haridwar, emphasised on the need for sporting activities along with education. College principal Dr Ramesh Chandra Sharma read out the school report. “The land of the school is related to Swami Shraddhanand and hence the school is trying to impart moral values among students,”said RC Sharma. Among the staff members present were RP
Saini, Deepak Mishra, AK Sharma, Dr Arvind Sharma, Bhanwar Singh, LP Singh, Rajeshwari
Bahuguna, Praveen Tyagi, Rajeev Kaushik, Ashok Kumar, Subash Gupta, Sanjay
Chauhan, Bijendra Chauhan and others.
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Parent-toddler workshop held
Dehradun, December 22 Jimmy Eappen, an eminent figure dealing with toddlers in Delhi, has presented a skit as well as art/craft to make kids learn shapes and colours. The effective two-day training session will continue tomorrow also to extract the inner talent of beginners. Parents of students aged between 1 year, 6 months to 4 years were invited to attend this workshop. The other objective of the workshop is the role of a teacher in the life of a child in the early stage. Emphasis was laid on the playway teaching method and how to kindle creative and imaginative skills of toddlers. Knowledge of advanced and skilled ways of teaching was also imparted during the session. The teachers were taught how to make the learning process easy and interesting for kids. Other eminent people present at the function were Prem Kashyap, Principal of Pestleweed College, Kiran Kashyap, Principal of Children’s Academy, Sonia Ahuja, Coordinator, Sherawat, Principal of Kay Cee Public School, and staff members.
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New courses in hospitality, management
Dehradun December 22 Hemant Kochar, Director of the institute, said the college was affiliated to British Educational Council, London. The diploma and advanced course are carried from “City and Guilds”. The one-year diploma and two-year advanced diploma courses include food preparation, culinary arts and food and beverage service. The minimum eligibility qualification for admission to the advanced course of “City and Guilds” is Class XII pass while the minimum eligibility for admission to diploma course is intermediate or Class X pass. Kochar said the admission process would begin from the first week of May and classes would commence from August. The examination of “City and Guilds” will begin from June while the examination of IGNOU will commence in October. Competitive exams start in the last week of May and campus placements will be organised from June to July.
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Students create magic with colours
Dehradun, December 22 All students up to Class XI participated in the contest. Participants showed their imagination and creativity through brush and colours. The vicinity turned into a colourful world as children painted on given topics enthusiastically. The competition was divided into four categories. Class I to III formed Group A and their topic was X-mas Day. Class IV to VI were in Group B and they were given the topic “my family”. Class VII and VIII were put in Group C and their topic was “doodle art” while from Class X to XI were in Group D with the topic ‘a village scene’. Prem Kashyap, president of the Principal Progressive School Association and Principal of Pestle Weed College, was the chief guest of the event. He encouraged the students to participate in such competitions and appreciated their work as well as support from teachers.
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NSUI elections in February
Dehradun, December 22 This was announced by NSUI national general secretary Ragani Nayak at a press conference here today. National chief election officer Rohit Chaudhary and state president Sangram Singh Pundir of the party were also present at the conference. Addressing the media, Ragani said the elections would be held for the posts of two general secretaries, two secretaries and a vice-president at district and state level. She informed that party’s membership had been thrown open today and one could enroll himself or herself before January 25. The membership fee had been fixed as Rs 10. These members would further take part in the elections. The contenders who would get the highest number of votes would be announced as vice-president, while the second and third highest vote getters would be made general secretaries and secretaries.
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Khadak Bahadur soccer meet from tomorrow
Dehradun, December 22 It is one of the oldest tournaments of the city. It began in 1968 and had attracted big names like Shyam Thapa, CB Thapa, Ratan Thapa, Amar Bahadur Thapa and others. The tournament has seen many ups and downs and had come to an abrupt end in 1999 due to a decline in popularity. But due to the efforts of the football lovers like JM Shahi, the tournament was revived two years later. A committee was formed to organise the tournament and JM Shahi was made president. “With the tournament coming to an abrupt end in 1999, sports activities of Nehra Gram’s children were adversely affected. Therefore, we decided to revive the tournament,” said Shahi. Last year, 16 teams participated in the tournament. This year, the number has gone up by one. These include two Army teams, five village teams and ten club teams. Ranjeet Thapa, former Indian player who played for Mafatlal Club, could be the chief guest. Paras Thapa, who coaches children at Guru Ram Rai Inter-College said, “With the resumption of the tournament, the sporting activities of the youths of Nehru Gram have registered an upsurge.”
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School celebrates annual day
Dehradun, December 22 The school function was entirely a fun-filled occasion, where toddlers participated with full zeal and enthusiasm. The colourful event commenced with the inaugural by chief guest Mayor Vinod Chamoli. Besides, guests as well as parents enjoyed the captivating cultural dances and songs presented by tiny tots. The chief guest also distributed prizes among the students. The trophy for the best all-rounder went to Chirag Gurung. Sandeep Sharda and Misbah declared best sportspersons. Ananya Goyal bagged the Smt Bhuvaneshwari Devi Bahuguna Memorial Trophy for the most talented student. Along with entertainment, students also tried to spread awareness of global warming among the people. A small glimpse of exercising and meditation were shown through a performance
of tae kwon do. The Principal appreciated the diligent participants as well as their mentors, who guided and trained them to give the best performance with prowess. Kids were also encouraged for their participation.
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Amit, Praveen advance
Dehradun, December 22 Results: 30-36 kg: Shrikant defeated Unnat, Manthan beat Siddhart. Pavan Gurung beat Vikas Bisht, Pankaj Rawat beat Shubham Rawat, Tushar beat Pawan, Pankaj Bhandari beat Adarsh, Himanshu Joshi beat Ashish Gurung and Ashish Rawat beat Sulabh. 36-42 kg: Dhan Bahadur beat Shubham, Ashish beat Abhishek, Rohit Gurung beat Prithavi. 42-46 kg: Haran Rai beat Vipin Kumar, Pradeep Kumar beat Mukesh. 46-51 kg: Chirag beat Yograj Kumar, Pradeep beat Rishap Thapa. 54-57 kg: Amit Nautiyal beat Brijmohan, Praveen Kumar beat Shishir. 30-36 kg: Pavan Gurung beat Pankaj Rawat, Pankaj Bhandari beat Tushar Jaswal.
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Mahender stars in Contender’s win
Dehradun, December 22 Batting first, the Contender team scored 217 runs. Aporva was the leading run scorer. He made 59 runs off 62 balls. Mahender came next with 48 runs and Deepak scored 29 runs. For MGC team, Shailender took four wickets and Kamal scalped three wickets. Chasing 218 runs for victory, MGC team was all out for 176 runs. Govind gave a fine start to MGC and went on to score 56 runs off 56 balls. First-down batsman Rajan scored 21 runs off 22 balls. Kanta scored 21 runs. For Contender team, Mahender took five wickets, while Gaurav claimed two wickets. In the second match, Doon Camps defeated OFD Stadium by 61 runs. Batting first, Doon Camps piled up 188 runs. Depender was the highest scorer with 43 runs. In reply, OFD Stadium was bundled out for 117 runs.
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Cross-country race from December 25
Dehradun, December 22 In the men’s open category, there will be a 12-km run. In the men under-20 group, an 8-km run will be conducted. Boys in the u-18 category will compete in a 6-km race while u-16 years will cover 3 km. Among women, the open category will have a race of 8 km, u-20 girls will run 6 km and u-16 girls will have to compete for 3 km.
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Workers of the Dehradun city Congress today burnt an effigy of the state government against the alleged lathi charge on party workers yesterday.
Dehradun, December 22
Dehradun, December 22
