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Protests against DMC’s house tax move
Protesting BHEL JEs sweep admn block road
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Mussoorie board clears 48 proposals
Probe ordered into reports against MLA
Nephrology Unit
Farmers allege harassment by land mafia
Blood component machine functional
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Protests against DMC’s house tax move
Dehradun, February 23 To pacify the disgruntled, the MNA proposed to constitute a committee, which would include the Opposition leaders to discuss and solve the issue, but Verma refused to become a part of any such committee. He made his opposition to the house taxes quite clear. Verma opposed the pattern of self-assessment taxes saying that they had been adopted from Uttar Pardesh and were not suitable for the geographical and financial condition of Uttarakhand. He also said these taxes were product of the ordinance announced in 2000, but not implemented since then. This way, their implementation lost its significance. He suggested DMC to first make its own MC Act and, then levy the taxes accordingly. He called the Mayor autocratic for imposing the tax direction despite getting disapproval from Congress councilors. He blamed him for getting the regulation passed in board meeting by taking advantage of belonging to a party in power and majority. He also decried treating upper, middle and lower classes with similar approach. He said the new taxes would put additional burden on loaners, small entrepreneurs and employees who are already bearing the brunt of paying loans to the bank and, the slums would also come under severe strain. He requested the MNA to desist from implementing the taxes. Meanwhile, the Uttrakhand Kranti Dal, led by Latafat Hussain, advisor of the policy committee of the party, gave a memorandum to the District Magistrate for the Chief Minister denouncing the newly-announced house tax rates. Hussain said when the DMC was floated in 2003, the board had promised villagers that unless all villages were fully merged with the state and got full development, they would not be charged house tax. The board had broken its promise.
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Protesting BHEL JEs sweep admn block road
Haridwar, February 23 The protesting officers swept the main road of the administrative block in Gandhigiri style. Stating that for the past three years, they have been in discussion with the central federation, but every time, the management took a U-turn after giving assurances. They cited a recent decision of the management wherein a pay revision was done which put the pay and other allowances of the middle management consisting of junior engineers and officers on par with lower-ranked employees. “By this step, the BHEL management has tried to belittle fresh and junior-ranked diploma engineers and officers. This move has made our higher education and identity negligible,” said Onkar Nath Awasthi, general secretary of the BHEL JEOA. CFFP general secretay Ashok Kumar said that if their demands are not met and they are not given due recognition and pay allocation, they would intensify their agitation. Among those who addressed the gathering were Jay Kumar, Ajeet Jetli, Ravindra Vashisht, KS Rawat, Kanchi Giri, Chandra Veer Singh, Harish Verma, Satish Kumar, JP Shah, SN Singh, Ram Sagar Singh, PN Ram, UC Sharma, SC Farsi, KL Kaushik among others.
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Mussoorie board clears 48 proposals
Mussoorie, February 23 The decision to increases the revenue of Palika was also discussed at the board meeting in which it was decided that illegal encroachment on Palika land would be removed with immediate affect. It was also decided that that the process of recovering the rent from shops owned by Palika would also be initiated. The board also took decision on inviting tenders for the company Garden Parking. It was also decided that financial assistance worth Rs 1.5 lakh would be provided to the Nagar Palika Karamchari Sangh for their regional convention. The board deliberated on giving the two Mall Road barriers on contractual basis, but the Palika president said the barriers would be given on contract only after the computerisation system does not yield more revenue and the decision was kept on the hold for a year. Ward No. 6 member of Kulri, Subashni Bhartwal also raised the issue of additional construction for the Safai Karamcharis in Sarai area that was pending from last one year. Uniyal directed the officials to work on it on priority basis. Nod was given for beautification and installing a musical fountain at Hawaghar near the library and shift the horses to a different venue from the present site. The beautification would be done by a firm from Lucknow. Palika president said the board would act strictly on all those offenders who were increasing the shops owned by Palika without any prior permission from the Board. The members also raised the issue of erecting new electricity poles in different wards for which more than 60 poles would be purchased initially. Regarding the laying down of monorail at the Camel Back Road it was decided to form a committee. The contractual agreement of health workers was also increased for one more month.
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Probe ordered into reports against MLA
Dehradun, February 23 It was alleged that a ruling party MLA from Kumoan was caught while taking a bribe from a contractor by a Vigilance team, but since the matter involved a BJP MLA, it was hushed up. However, Vigilance authorities denied any such incident. But when it was reported by some of the vernacular dailies, Uttarakhand BJP chief Bishan Singh Chuphal, along with Surender Singh Jena, party MLA who is Chairman of the Kumoan Mandal Vikas Nisgam, addressed the media to deny the allegations. Surender said: “I am open to any kind of inquiry and if found guilty I will resign.” |
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Nephrology Unit
Dehradun, February 23 With the signing of the MoU by DG, Health, Dr CP Arya and CEO Sudhir Diggikar, Apollo Health Enterprise, a complete nephrology unit at a government hospital in the state will become functional in the coming days, proving a boon to poor patients who in the absence of such a facility at the government hospital are forced to undergo dialysis at private clinics and hospitals. The agreement with the private partner is for a period of five years. On the occasion, Principal Secretary, Health, Keshav Desi Raju said medical services were expanding in the state. “Due to manpower crunch, we have to opt for private partners to get the services going and soon other hospitals too will have this kind of tie-up,” he added. An committee comprising health experts and bureaucrats from time to time will monitor the performance of the services. A 480-sq-m area has been set aside for the private partner to run the unit on the Build, Operate and Transfer basis. “The private partner will have to install 13 dialysis machines and other important equipment along with medical and technical staff, the expenses to be borne by the private partner. The unit will be run for 16 hours and even on holidays,” said Dr Sudhanshu Bhauguna, Director, Hospitals. The facility will be free for BPL, HIV and hepatitis patients, while those falling under the APL category will be charged Rs 150 per dialysis and addition charge on consumables will also be levied that will be 15 per cent than the market price, while the state government will have to pay Rs 936 to Apollo Enterprise per dialysis. |
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Farmers allege harassment by land mafia
Nainital, February 23 They said despite the administration having ordered evacuation of moneylenders and restoration of landholdings to 124 families on November 16 last year, nothing had been done in this regard so far. They also alleged that miscreants employed by the land mafia continued to threaten people of the Tharu community in the Nagla Panchpeda area and were usurping their land. The farmers also demanded an online functioning of mandis on the lines of Punjab and Haryana to know how much produce was coming to the markets every day. They threatened to launch an agitation if their concerns were not addressed at the earliest.
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Blood component machine functional
Dehradun, February 23 In the absence of a licence, the hospital authorities were unable to operate the unit that serves the purpose of storing blood on the basis of components. “We have started operating the blood component machine and from tomorrow the blood bank will be able to deliver blood component wise,” said Dr SK Nautiyal, senior pathologist, Doon Hospital. Though for now only a temporary licence has been given, it will be extended further as the operation gain momentum. The component machine ensures the highest level of blood safety and utility. As the blood is stored as per red cells, platelets and plasma components, patients are given blood according to the component requirement. This ensures better utility, especially when it is a scarce commodity. Within six to eight hours of blood collection, it is separated using high degree of automation methods. For the past one year it was an endless wait for the hospital authorities awaiting clearance report from the Central government team that had carried inspection in June. At that time the team had suggested installation of AC-chamber rooms. “Acting promptly, we had then installed air-conditioners for housing Cryofuge 6001 and 6002 machines, along with components,” said Dr RK Pant, CMS, Doon Hospital. The unit has been funded by the Central government and will be able to utilise blood in as per medical requirement.
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(DMC) on February 19 in various newspapers, Congress councillors, led by Opposition leader Ashok Verma, gave a memorandum letter signed by 28 Congress councillors to Mukhya Nagar Adhikari (MNA) NK Joshi to register their opposition.
