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A Peshwayi sans tableaux
Zero-zone traders, residents feel suffocated |
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Kumbh arrangements impress army men
Paramilitary personnel pray for a peaceful completion of the Maha Kumbh at Har-ki-Pauri in Haridwar on Friday. Tribune photo:Rameshwar Gaur
Beat board jitters with new CBSE counselling system
Campus Notes:
IIT Roorkee
Experts lay stress on energy-efficient buildings
Students showcase art works
Dr BK Joshi, former Vice-Chancellor of Kumaon University, at an exhibition held by
MKP College in Dehradun on Friday. A Tribune photograph
Players in action at the ongoing All-India Junior Major Ranking Badminton Championship in Haridwar on Friday.
Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaur
Demolition Boys win by 8 wickets
A batsman all set to hit the ball in a match at the SC Goyal Memorial Cricket Tournament in Dehradun on Friday.
A Tribune photograph
Workshop on climate change policy ends
Cricket: NIIT enter final
Members of the SFI hold a protest in Dehradun on Friday. A Tribune photograph
Three cyclists from Chhattisgarh meet Uttarakhand Governor Margaret Alva after reaching Dehradun on Friday. A Tribune photograph
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A Peshwayi sans tableaux
Haridwar, February 5 This was exemplified once again during today’s Peshwayi conducted by the Shri Shambu Panchayati Atal Akhada in Haridwar. As has been the norm of the Atal Akhada Peshwayi, the royal procession was a subtle one with a variety of saints participating in it. Though people sorely missed the tableaux in this Peshwayi, but Naga sanyasis didn’t let the feeling last long. Nagas donning long hair and beards to totally bare Naga saints were a major attraction at the Peshwayi. The Atal Akhada Peshwayi didn’t traverse the main city roads as the previous three akhadas - Juna-Agni, Aahwaan and Mahanirmani - did. As a result, the procession didn’t take the whole city in its grip, but wherever it went, it created awe and cast a spell on the onlookers. The Peshwayi commenced at around 10.30 am from the Shiv Mandir at Swaroopanand Ashram near Gurukul Kangri University after the holding of rituals. The Peshwayi was led by Atal Peetha Deeshwar Swami Sukhdevanand Maharaj who was followed by various prominent Mahamandaleshwars and saints. It passed through the Dehradun-Haridwar-New Delhi national highway reaching Singh Dwar, Krishna Nagar, Kankhal, Desh Rakshak Chowk, Dadoobag, Kankhal police station area, Chowk Bazaar, Pahadi Bazaar, Ram Krishan Tiraha, Chetan Dev Kutiyah and reached Atal Akhada Chawni. Hundreds of Naga sanyasis and saints were part of the procession. Thousands of persons remained glued for hours to watch it. At various points, local people and several organisations welcomed the Peshwayi which spread colour to every area it passed through. When the procession reached the national highway the traffic coming from Roorkee, Najibabad and Dehradun was diverted through Bahadrabad towards BHEL. Vehicles going from Dehradun-Najibabad towards Roorkee were diverted from the Chandi Pull Chowk-Lal Taura Pull towards hilly bypass and finally through the BHEL route. Similarly, vehicles coming from Jwalapur to Haridwar city went through Jatwada Pull-Shankar Ashram-Chandracharya chowk to Haridwar city and also from Jwalapur railway crossing to Sector-2 barrier road towards Haridwar. DSP Traffic (Mela) Shweta Chaubey said that traffic remain smooth and as the Peshwayi didn’t venture into the internal main city roads, most interior city traffic was not affected as was in the previous three Peshwayis. Heavy motor vehicle entry into the city was totally prohibited the whole day. “This Peshwayi gave us the opportunity to view it from our homes. We didn’t have to go to the city to see the royal procession. “It was good that this Peshwayi’s route was different and people living in other parts of the city also got to see the royal spectacle,” opined many residents of Kankhal and Dadoo Bagh areas.
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Zero-zone traders, residents feel suffocated
Haridwar, February 5 Already perturbed by restrictions imposed for the Maha Kumbh, residents in the zone fear that during the Kanwar mela on Maha Shivratri (February 12), more restrictions would be imposed on them. They stated that the administration was not realising their woes as a result of restrictions on their free movement. The traders have alleged that the mela administration was harassing traders and residents in the zero zone. The traders have warned they would take the route of agitation if their need for free movement is not paid heed to in the coming days. Their warning assumes significance as the first Shahi Snan falls on February 12 and any dispute will only pose severe problems for the mela administration. Traders in the zone have alleged that their trade has been severely affected due to the mela administration’s policies in their area. Residents living in the zero zone, which falls in the mela area specially Har-ki-Pauri and nearby areas, have to face more restrictions than residents living in other parts of the city. During festive baths and other religious occasions, traffic movement is barred in the zone and special passes are issued to residents and traders. Terming the traffic policy and prohibition of traffic movement in the zone as totally against the residents, Devpura Vyapar Mandal chief Sandeep Sharma said that on the pretext of the Kumbh, the mela administration was harassing residents and traders. It seems more restrictions and problems are in the offing for zero-zone residents as the Kanwar mela reaches its zenith. A sea of Kanwariyas will add to the ocean of devotees for the Maha Kumbh already present in the holy city. This will put further pressure on the zero zone. DSP Traffic Shweta Chaubey said the mela administration has made efforts to keep the inconvenience being faced by the zone residents to the minimum. But she also added that during Shahi Snans and other festive occasions, some restrictions were mandatory due to the huge influx of devotees. Meanwhile, in a meeting of traders, the Shiv Moorti Vyapar Mandal has expressed full support to the mela administration for the Maha Kumbh. In a meeting held here, the members opined that traders were with the mela administration and hosting the mega fair peacefully was their priority as well.
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Kumbh arrangements impress army men
Haridwar, February 5 The latest to join the list - to see Maha Kumbh arrangements and to take a holy dip in the Ganga at Har-ki-Pauri - is top brass of all three wings - Army, Air Force and Navy officials from the National Defence College situated in New Delhi. Accompanying them were army officials of Great Britain, Nigeria, Nepal and Lebanon. The visit of these above-Brigadier-ranked Indian and foreign army officers was kept secret so that people and police arrangements don’t get affected. These officers took a briefing at the mela control room yesterday regarding the Maha Kumbh security set up and were impressed by the strategies and planning being undertaken in view of the global terror threat and management of crores of people as well as traffic. The visitors were also apprised
about the logistic challenges during Kumbh, arrangements for pilgrims, disaster management, resources, crowd control, traffic plans and other
related aspects. The officers also gave suggestions and posed queries during the briefing to DIG Alok Sharma who answered in detail to the questions. The officers were also shown the arrangements done at the CCR (Kumbh mela control tower). These officers are undergoing one-year training at the NDC and this visit was part of the training module. According to DIG Alok Sharma, the officers praised the arrangements. He said that their suggestions would be incorporated to ensure that the mega fair is conducted peacefully. Meanwhile, the district administration of Haridwar organised the Ganga ritual today for administrative and police personnel. All prominent district administrative as well as mela administrative officers and personnel took part. The function began at 10 am with ‘Ganga Pujan’ followed by ‘Seva Shapath’ and finally prasad was distributed.
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Beat board jitters with new CBSE counselling system
Dehradun, February 5 The CBSE outreached counselling services are helping students and parents during examinations to overcome anxiety and the peer pressure of the examination they are going through. The phase of tele-counseling began from February 1 and would continue till February 8. This is the 13th consecutive year that CBSE will be providing counselling services but this telephonic programme is carefully designed to deal with the heterogeneity of students’ population and geographical spread, accordingly. To reach out to more and more examinees, the counsellors have come up with multiple modes of communication such as telephonic counselling, question answers columns in news papers, Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) and online counseling through CBSE website. Riddhima Gurung, student of Scholar’s Home School explained, “Earlier, I was suffering from sleepless nights and often dreamt of unable to write during examinations. I spoke to one of the counsellors on the advice of my sister and and after that I feel much better and have calmed down now. I am able to concentrate more on my studies as well as able to manage time accordingly.” Well-trained counsellors and experts offer the service of psychoanalysis, psycho assistance. Principals from within CBSE affiliated schools located in and outside India are also volunteering as counsellors. More than 52 Principals, trained counsellors from CBSE affiliated government and private schools, psychologists and social scientists are operating this helpline from 8 am upto mid-night from locations like Delhi, Noida, Chandigarh, Meerut, Jaipur, Faridabad, Bhubaneswar, Vishakhapatnam, Jamnagar, Jabalpur, Coimbatore, Bhopal, Nagpur, Bangalore, Guwahati, Kerala, Ludhiana, Kanpur, Bhilai, and Pune across India. Whosoever wants to talk to us can directly call on the centralised call system (counselling cell) and the operator will connect the call to the counsellor. There are three helpline centres outside India located at Kuwait, Dubai and Doha Qatar. The tele-counselling service has the centralised access for the better accessibility of the students within their approach at free of cost. While talking to the Tribune, Kana Roy Chaudhary, Principal of Centre Point School, Nagpur, who is been selected as counsellor by the CBSE said, “I get 60 calls in a day approximately with maximum examinees questioning from Delhi and its nearby places such as Faridabad, Haryana and Chandigarh. They question, ‘whether I’ll be able to pass the examination or not’? Other queries are- how to prepare for the examination, time management, less appetite, low concentration, sleepless nights and many more. Same number of parents also cal to know that how they should help their child in studies with only one month left in final examinations.” “To deal with anxiety and stress level of any student, first we calm down them and then provide them with remedy of bursting stress through time management, proper eating, resting, meditation and proper counselling,” she added. The board also has telephonic counselling sessions for the Specially-abled children which started last year. The service is available for the sixth consecutive year on BSNL/Airtel/ Reliance phones. For BSNL (landline and mobile) and Airtel it is available on 1250102. For Reliance (CDMA) this service is available on 55500102. For online counselling the public can also log on to the CBSE website and interact with the chairman on exam related issues.
This telephonic programme is carefully designed to deal with the heterogeneity of student population. To reach out to more and more examinees, counsellors have come up with
multiple modes of communication such as telephonic counselling, question-answers columns in news papers,
Interactive Voice Response System and online counselling. The helpline numbers
are: 011- 22236110, 22236111, 22236112 and 011- 22236113
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Preparations on for Srishti-2010
Akash Ghai Tribune News Service
Roorkee, February 5 Srishti 2010 is the annual techno-hobby exhibition and one of the largest exhibitions held at the college-level, said organisers. Terming the event a grand event for enthusiastic hobbyists, the students team, which is looking after all organising matters, said a large number of students and professionals would turn up to participate in the three-day fest. The event is a unique blend of art and science, they maintained. Apart from organising an exhibition on science and art, several workshops on various issues like aero-modelling, hacking and robotics will be held during the fest, which will witness organisation of more than 40 various events in three days. The major attractions will be an exhibition of stamps and web designing. Last year, the event saw the participation of about 7,000 students and professionals from across the country. New inventions in ultrasound imaging
In the coming days, ultrasounds will be able to tell about the blockages in the arteries of heart. This was stated at a three-day training programme on ultrasound imaging, processing and clinical applications in the Continuing Education Centre (CEC) recently. Dr Vinod Kumar, Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, said field trials in this direction had been done successful in University of Washington and in Germany. “The results are encouraging and we (the scientists) are sure that the advance technique will almost replace angioplasty in near future,” he said. The training programme, in which lectures were delivered by renowned scientists and doctors, including Prof Youngmin Kim and Dr R Manugali (both from University of Washington), Dr N Khandelwal and Dr Navin Kalra (both from the PGI, Chandigarh), Dr RS Anand and Dr Vinod Kumar (IIT-Roorkee), was aimed at making participants aware of recent developments in ultrasound imaging. The other objective of this short training programme were to apprise the participants, including researchers, teachers of various engineering institutes and RND people, of clinical interpretation and diagnostic importance of ultrasound images, image enhancement, de-noising and feature extraction from ultrasound images. “Efforts were made to arrange joint activities of technologists, medical professionals and image processing people to discuss common problems of the researchers working in this area and guide them to future research and developmental scope,” said Dr Vinod Kumar. Earlier, Prof SC Saxena, Director, IIT-Roorkee, inaugurated the training programme and lauded his colleagues for doing work for such noble causes aimed at benefiting the common man. Dr HK Verma, Deputy Director, IIT-Roorkee, distributed certificates among 28 participants.
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Experts lay stress on energy-efficient buildings
Roorkee, February 5 The issue was largely dwelt upon during the special workshop held recently at the Department of Architect and Planning, IIT, here. It was held in collaboration with the Vienna Institute of Technology and Bureau of Energy Efficiency and funded by US AID ECO III Programme. Dr Satish Kumar, chief, US AID Eco III Programme, and Dr PS Channi, Assistant Professor, IIT, Roorkee, coordinated the workshop. The buildings, which are especially designed taking into consideration various factors, including climatic conditions of the area, position of windows, material quality and architecture, to save energy are called energy-efficient structures, said Dr Channi. He said about 30 per cent of the total energy generated was used in buildings only in our country. “Therefore, it is necessary to build energy-efficient buildings. This will not only help conserve the energy but also be useful in combating the global warming threat. So we should use the energy simulation technique while constructing buildings, especially the commercial ones,” said Dr Channi. Dr Satish Kumar said the more usage of energy the more carbon dioxide emissions. By constructing these specially designed buildings, we can cut down on carbon dioxide emissions and save the energy, he added. In the four-day workshop over 90 budding architects from various institutes across the country were apprised of the latest and advance techniques and building physics. Prof A Madhavi and building physics expert Christina Orhonig from the Vienna Institute of Technology delivered lectures on the issue. Various awareness programme on the issue have born fruit with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency preparing an Energy Conservation Building Code, Dr Channi said. “In the coming days, it will be made mandatory for every building to conform to the Code so that effective steps could be taken in the direction to combat global warming and energy resource crunch,” Dr Channi added.
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Students showcase art works
Dehradun, February 5 The exhibition showcased around 200 artworks painted in various artistic styles by college students and were well appreciated by guests and students alike. Some paintings were on sale and were bought by enthusiastic local art connoisseurs. Threesh Kapoor said: “Students should not hide their artistic work inside closed rooms but share it with others to improve their talent and gain confidence”. He also said the art gallery at Uttaranchal Gramin Bank was ready to exhibit the paintings by students free of charge for a fortnight. The eagerly anticipated part of the exhibition was the painting demonstration by Dr Gambhir. “My only talent is that I am enthusiastic about art, my work,” he said. Dr Joshi compared the exhibition to the colours of spring and pointed out that due to the commercialisation of education not much attention was paid to the “non-mainstream subjects” like painting, music and other art forms. The college had published a catalogue carrying pictures of the paintings by their students.
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Badminton qualifiers witness tough contests
Haridwar February 5 In the doubles category in Court 1 duo from Madhya Pradesh of Rubin Shah and Saumitra Shivenakar comprehensively cruised in to second round by winning first round duel against Rohit Singh and Varuan Jayara from home state Uttarakhand in straight sets by 21-12,21-8. While Bahrat-Suryansh Pant and Abhisheks-Ujjawal Dobal from Uttarakhand got walkover as their respective opponents failed to appear on time. While Andhra Pradesh’s G Akhilesh Kumar-Sayedd Subhan Ali won by 24-22, 21-18 against Ashish Tieari-Ashutosh Tiwari from Madhya Pradesh. Host’s Bodhit Joshi-Lakshaya Sen too won their outing against G Narender-K Hari Nagu of AP. In singles, Amol Karkare from Chattisgarh won against R Pranay (AP) by 21-17,21-17. While Saurabh Anand (Bihar) won against Aaryesh C hauhan (UTR) by 21-5,1-9, Vaibhav Chouhan (UTR) won against compatriot Himanshu Tiwari by 21-5,21-9. In other match results Jishan Ali-Nitesh Kumar, Pranay Arya-Shikhar Aggarwal, G Akhilesh Kumar-Syed Subhan Ali, Bodhit Joshi-Lakshya Sen, Rahul Patel-Yohaan Abraham, K Pavan Raghu Varnshi-K Satya won in doubles event. While in singles category, Rahul Patel, Vidhu Nair, Ruby Singh, Mahima Aggarwal, K Sri Krishna Priya, G Vrushali, Anoushka Parikh, Himanshi Rawat, Ushmita Rajput, Diksha Choudhary, Kerul Mistry, Abhidha Pandit, Radhika Gokhale, Kashish Kumar, Shlok Ramchandran, Sumit Sharma, C Rahul Yadav, Rishab Sahdev, Pranay Arya,Shikhar Aggarwal, Saurabh Sharma, Vidhu Nair, K Sri Krishna Priya, Anoushka Parikh, Diksha Choudhary, Kerul Mistry and Gauri Asija cruised into
second round.
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Demolition Boys win by 8 wickets
Dehradun, February 5 Batting first, the RSCC team piled 92 runs in 20 overs. Salman began on a strong note for his team but could not carry on his good touch for a long and got out for 10 runs. Another opener Bobby scored seven runs off 20 balls. After both openers failed to score, first down batsman Ankit played a knock of 15 runs, but he was not able to stay for a long in front of the disciplined bowling of Demolition Boys and got bold. Apart from the first three batsmen, none other batsmen could occupy the crease for a long and the whole team was out after playing 17.2 overs. For Demolition Boys, Imraan, Sunny and Mohit took two wickets each. It was Gaurav for Demolition Boys team who played a knock of 23 runs, another opener Mohit scored 17 runs to give Demolition Boys a good start. Thereafter, Karan scored 18 runs whereas Imran scored 14 runs. For RSCC team Anuj picked up two wickets. Meanwhile in the second match, Elevan Star beat Doon Royals by 19 runs. Eleven Star team piled 113 runs in 19.2 overs. Vicky scored highest 47 runs for the team off 33 balls, before getting out of the bowling of Vishal. After Vicky, none other batsman showed the potential to occupy the crease for a long. Vipin made 14 runs, whereas Shakti scored 12 runs. For Doon Royal team Virender took four wickets, Aman and Akshay took two wickets. In reply, Doon Royal team was all out for 95 runs. After succeeding with the bowl Virender also contributed with the bat making 25 runs. Zeeshan made 27 runs. For Elevan Star team Vicky and Soppy took three wickets each.
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Workshop on climate change policy ends
Dehradun, February 5 Recommendations came at the conclusion of two-day workshop entitled - Building Resilience against Climate Change to ensure livelihood and food security in Uttarakhand. Presenting the consolidated draft action plan, Dr MM Kimothi Director Uttarakhand Space Application Centre said an inclusion of climate change in governance, as policy was very important and called for efforts in this direction from the state government. He said there was also a strong support for making climate change as integral part of forestry work plans. Earlier, addressing the valedictory session, Uttarakhand Agriculture Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said Uttarakhand has come under tremendous population pressure in recent years with agriculture land being the ultimate causality. He also admitted that industrialisation has come at the cost of agriculture land and have led to shrinkage of agriculture land. He said the concept of Special Agriculture Zone has been conceptualised for protecting agricultural land in the state. Dr Rakesh Kumar Secretary Women Empowerment and Child Development hoped for better coordination between World Food Programme and Uttarakhand government in the sphere of livelihood opportunities.
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Cricket: NIIT enter final
Dehradun, February 5 Batting first OTCC team scored 72 runs in 15. 1 overs. Opener Girish scored 46 runs to give a fine start to the team. But NIIT bowlers came in action and picked up remaining wickets with ease. Sunny Thakur was the star bowler for NIIT team. He ripped through OTCC team batting line up took six wickets for in his three overs. Jaggi took two wickets. In reply, NIIT team achieved the target with ease. Opener Deepak scored 33 runs off 30 balls, where Bhagat made 19 runs. Sunny made 13 runs. For OTCC team Ravi took two wickets, whereas Sharad took one wicket. Meanwhile, in the u-17 quarterfinal, Diamond Cricket Academy scored 148 runs in 30 overs. Jatin scored 32 runs whereas Mandeep scored 44 runs. Naveen made 25 runs. For Rao Cricket Academy team Sahil took three wickets. Chasing the victory target of 149 runs, the Rao Cricket Academy reached the target with four wickets in hand. Akashdeep made 50 runs, whereas Saurab made 23 runs and Pardeep made 29 runs. For Diamond Cricket Academy, Jatin took two wickets, whereas Naveen and Dheeraj and Karan took one wicket each.
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SFI submits memorandum
Dehradun, February 5 The SFI said in Australia almost everyday an Indian became victim of racial attacks. The members of the SFI alleged the Australian government had a non-caring attitude towards the plight of Indians. At the same time they held that ineffective policies of the Indian government had failed to check these attacks. The members also condemned the attacks on north Indians by the Shiv Sena and the Nav Nirman Sena. The federation demanded a case under relevant sections of law be registered against the leaders of these parties and that such parties should be banned.
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Members of cycling expedition meet Guv
Dehradun, February 5 The expedition also aimed at creating awareness about education, environment protection and drug-free society. The important thing of the expedition was that all three cyclists, Ghansham, Motilal and Santosh Nag, were physically challenged, despite this they were determined to carry on with the expedition. Allva praised the determination shown by the cyclists and the cause for which they have undertaken the journey.
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Though one may call the Indian Premier League the most successful event in
India, yet the enthusiasm and attention that the Maha Kumbh is getting will
make one think again.
The ongoing Maha Kumbh has been drawing saints, pilgrims, domestic and
international tourists and dignitaries. The latest to join the list - to see
Maha Kumbh arrangements and to take a holy dip in the Ganga at Har-ki-Pauri - is
top brass of all three wings - Army, Air Force and Navy officials from the
National Defence College situated in New Delhi.
Dehradun, February 5
Eleven Star beat Doon Royals by 19
runs
