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Centre must extend package in original form: Bhasin
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Clean-Green Haridwar campaign shows results
Municipal Chairman Kamal Johra, with the special task force, oversees the cleaning drive in a colony in Haridwar. Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaur
Jumbo trouble: Situation still not normal at Bishanpur
Union minister Harish Rawat addresses Bishanpur villagers on Monday. Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaur
Students accuse Principal of racial abuse
Change in exam pattern confuses students
Medical council team inspects Swami Narayan College
Students of Swami Narayan Medical College hold a potest in Dehradun on Monday. A Tribune photograph
Students get tips on career in media
Sikshak sangathan discusses staff problems
Graphic Era inks agreement for open-learning diploma
Shipra Singh, Professor, EDII, speaks at a function at Graphic Era University in Dehradun on Monday. A Tribune photograph
Maharana Partap Sports College lift hockey trophy Maharana Sports College team pose with its trophy after winning the S Kandhari Memorial Hockey Tournament in Dehradun on Monday. A Tribune photograph
Jharkhand Cricket Association
score easy victory
A match being played at the All-India Uttarakhand Gold Cup Cricket Tournament in Dehradun on Monday. A Tribune photograph
Convent of Jesus and Mary surpass Doon International
 A girls match in progress at the District Sub-Junior (u-14) Basketball Championship for Boys and Girls in Dehradun on Monday and (right) boys in action during a match at the tournament. Tribune photographs
Ajabpur Youngster drub Suffering Eleven by 155 runs
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Dehradun, May 10 Though deaths due to drowning are taking place at a regular frequency, yet the authorities have failed to take notice of the unmanned and unprotected rivers where most of these incidents have occurred. Take the two incidents that took place yesterday when a BDS student from a local dental college in Rishikesh drowned in the Ganga at Muni-ki-Reti and two students were carried away by the strong currents of the Tons river in Tyuni (Chakrata). In March, three students drowned in the Nayar river in Pauri Garhwal, while five students of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University drowned in the Alaknanda in Srinagar. In April too, a couple of similar incidents had taken place. One would have thought these would have acted as a wake-up call for the local authorities, including the administration and the police, but the ground situation appears to be far from it. The government has not even identified vulnerable spots nor has it come up with a proposal to warn people not to take risks as a majority of rivers are not for swimming or taking up water sports. Even at picturesque tourist spots with water bodies, there is a skeletal presence of the police with outposts being non-existent. Therefore, even these sites are not safe for swimming. Also missing are the signboards and warnings that can be prominently displayed at river banks and all along the course of the river that these may be dangerous. Surprisingly, the maximum incidents continue to take place in the Ganga where scores of persons take a bath every day. “We lack resources. Most of our rivers with strong currents are unmanned. Where is the manpower to monitor the tide of the rivers and deploy manpower at river banks to issue warnings? Where are the trained divers with equipment who can rescue people? “In fact, for the just-concluded Kumbh, River Police (Jal Police) was created for the first time in the state. We need more than 100 divers and lifeguards who can respond to any eventuality in case of an emergency,” said MA Ganapathy, IG, Garhwal. Experts said for the inexperienced, a decline in water level was temptation enough to throw caution to the winds and embark on a session of fun, but there lay the catch. Most rivers in the hills had strong currents that could whisk away a person within seconds. No wonder then, a stumble on the slippery rocks could prove fatal. The uninitiated usually fall prey to the deceptive nature of the rivers which may appear placid and quiet. Only professional swimmers with a higher category of rating can swim up to a point, but there is hardly any awareness about this aspect. “We have seen boisterous crowds of children and young people, mostly tourists, venturing into these rivers without much thought. Maybe there is lack of awareness. We can only warn people but can’t prevent them from falling into rivers, especially those exhibiting a death-wish-like behaviour. Youth have a tendency to jump into a river after a couple of drinks,” pointed out Alok Sharma, DIG Kumbh. Further, reasons behind drowning in the hills can also be attributed to the sudden release of water by dam authorities. In the incident that took place in Uttarkashi a few days ago, the authorities did not make the announcement before hand on the public address system. “In fact, no river has warning boards about the depth of the river or vulnerable areas where tourists should not venture. It is the duty of the Forest Department to put up signboards, but that has not been done,” said Shekhar Pathak, writer and social activist. However, incidents of schoolchildren drowning in rives can be prevented if there is awareness and teachers take precautions. “Tragedies are waiting to happen only when we become careless. Children should not be allowed to wander from the group and they should be given proper lessons on how to approach the river. They should be told to stay near the banks while embarking on a trip. “In fact, written permission should be taken in advance from parents and authorities so as to avoid unpleasant incidents,” said a Principal of a leading school of Dehradun. Invitation to disaster
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Centre must extend package in original form: Bhasin
Dehradun, May 10 In his reactions, Dr Bhasin said the Centre must extend the industrial package to Uttarakhand in its original form as provided to the state by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. “Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had provided the package up till 2013 and there is a need to extend this package up till 2020,” Bhasin said. He said the excise duty was a key part of industrial package and this had been done away with by the Centre after March 31, 2010. “A package without excise concession is meaningless,” he added. He asserted that Uttarakhand MPs too should assist the state government in getting industrial package for the state rather than resorting to irresponsible statements. “The Congress MPs must go for development politics,” he observed.
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Clean-Green Haridwar campaign shows results
Haridwar, May 10 Johra formed a special task force to look after the sanitation and cleanliness work in the city. While the sub-panel committee’s heads have also been included in this task force and are designated to look after their respective areas. For instance, street light committee in charge will oversee the related field queries and problems which the task force reviews, and health committee chief will look into the health aspect. During an inspection, Johra suspended a woman sanitation employee from remaining absent from duty for months and took strong cognisance of three employees not present during duty hours in the Bhimgoda area. Sanitary inspectors also came under fire as the Chairman has directed daily monitoring. Similarly, junior engineers and palika contractors also came under fire for showing laxity in their work. While opposition members in the municipality term the Chairman’s drive as a step to save his chair as he is already being opposed by his own party councillors and wants to divert everybody’s attention from his lacklustre two-year tenure.
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Jumbo trouble: Situation still not normal at Bishanpur
Haridwar, May 10 While protesting against the Forest Department some anti-social elements who are involved in illegal quarrying targeted the forest officers. While the DFO also sustained injuries, his jeep and Jwalapur police station were also attacked by the mob. Today, Union Minister of State Harish Rawat visited the Bandipur Kundi village and heard the woes of people taking stock of the situation. He condemned the police action and said the administration could have handled the situation more efficiently. Rawat expressed his condolence to the family of the worker Mahendra Rajbhar, a resident of Gazipur village, who was mowed down by the elephant at nearby field of Bishanpur Kundi village. Many villagers told Rawat, who is also an MP from Haridwar, that they had no links with the mining mafia and were only protesting against the jumbo attack when they all were targeted.
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Students accuse Principal of racial abuse
Haridwar, May 10 State Scheduled Tribes Commission vice-chairman Suresh Rathore met the agitators and listened to their complaint. Rathore assured them that he would take up the matter with Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and if such comments or behaviour by the Principal had been proved then an appropriate action would be taken against him. Students also pointed out that Dr Bharadwaj called ABVP members anti-social elements. Dr Bharadwaj termed the allegations as a desperate but low-grade act of the students to malign him. Meanwhile, the agitating Ayurvedacharyas took out a candle march late in the evening. It started from the college gate and reached Chandracharya Chowk where the protesters formed a circle and raised candles as a mark of protest. “Hurling abuses on grounds of caste doesn’t speak well of the statute of a person who is on the post of Principal,” said Anita Bhatt, a 2007 batch medico student. Former president of the Association of Junior Doctors Hemant Kandpal has lashed out at the media for reports stating that outsider anti-social elements are helping junior medicos. Kandpal, who led last year’s junior doctors’ agitation for a stipend hike and other issues, said only student outfits had come in support of the Ayurvedacharyas and in no way were those student leaders anti-social elements. The ABVP warned the college management that until the agitating students got justice they would be supporting the agitation with full resources. Shiv Chaudhari, secretary of the city unit of the outfit, said they were only taking the route of non-violence and had full faith in the Gandhian style of protest. SMJN College Union president Shakti Tyagi said a delegation would soon be meeting the state Education Minister in this regard. Later in the afternoon, the protesters put an effigy of the college Principal on the gallows terming him as a dictator who wanted only money, even at the cost of students’ future. Among those who addressed the protesters were Vipul Dhandriyal, Kumal Singh, SM Jain, Tushar Deep Upadhyay, Manish Tomar and Kuldeep Tomar.
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Change in exam pattern confuses students
Dehradun, May 10 Though the questions in the paper were in the objective format, the students appearing in the examination panicked to find the paper out of syllabus. Rishi, student of Class VII, complained, “We were happy to know that this time we had to write less in our annual examination, but in reality the question paper made us sweat then and there. “The questions asked were not from the lessons taught in the class, due to which I scored less in the examination”. Similarly, Rajni, also student of Class V, said she found difficulty in answering the newly patterned paper as there was no answer sheet given to them. Instead a booklet sort of thing was given with questions written on it and four options as an answer to it. Hemlata Bhatt, Block Education Officer, she said, “The question paper was set up in a productively increased level to benefit children. The change in the questioning pattern in all government schools from primary and middle school level were focused more on mental ability of the students with the concept to shun the habit of mugging and encourage the skills of understanding and then learning”. According to officials of the SSA, the plan is primarily made to know the interest of students, judge their IQ levels and at the same time encourage them to take examinations in a more constructive and friendly manner. The abhiyaan (drive) was to promote every student to the next class rather than hold them back for not performing well in the examination. “With every development in society or in the education system, there occurs a possibility of its failing, but better execution in the more practised and trained form can actually help in coping with it. The examination pattern was set to encourage students to take examinations more seriously, rather than a mere burden and focus more on the concept rather than mugging up the chapters,” added Bhatt.
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Medical council team inspects Swami Narayan College
Dehradun, May 10 The committee constituted by Principal Secretary (Health) S Raju conducted the inspection in the morning and seized important documents. The report will be presented on May 15 to the Principal Secretary (Health). Taking prompt notice of the agitation launched by students of Swami Narayan Medical College, who are demanding resolution of affiliation issue, S Raju constituted a team to look into the matter. The college is already under a cloud for conducting classes and taking hefty sums for sessions that have been not been approved by the DCI. One of the committee members, part of the team that visited the college, said their effort would be to find a solution to the problem of the students, as the DCI had not given approval for third year and fresh batch, while the 2007 batch was still on. “The chairman of the institute came 45 minutes late, we took inspection of the college checking the infrastructure, the laboratories and even held interaction with the students and found that several things are not up to the mark,” said one of the members.
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Students get tips on career in media
Mussoorie, May 10 Senior programmer Deshraj Rastogi said the UCPS was pioneer in providing need based customised programme in the filed of media and entertainment industry in the state. He also said the UCPS was a sister concern of a nine-year-old production house in New Delhi and was inviting admissions in the said field. He further said the UCPS was well equipped with qualified staff and guest faculty. The placement of the institute had been cent per cent since its inception, he added. The students attending the counselling, however, felt that the career was interesting enough considering the supply-demand ratio but the course fee was high.
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Sikshak sangathan discusses staff problems
Dehradun, May 10 The meeting was conducted with an aim to put forth the problems of employees of different departments and deriving a constructive conclusion out of it. The association also criticised the incident of lathi charge on forest officers and condemned the officials for keeping mum in the case. The association has demanded that the state government regulate the removal of such officials and other employees from their office of profit that was causing hindrance in the development of the state. The association has also demanded that health smart cards be provided to the employees of every department that falls under the association.
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Graphic Era inks agreement for open-learning diploma
Dehradun, May 10 According to the pact, Graphic Era has become the nodal centre for the registration and examination of the open-learning programme in entrepreneurship, where students will be offered a one-year diploma course in business entrepreneurship. While to begin with the first batch of the learning programme, 13 faculty members and 37 students of the university have got themselves registered. During the ceremony, Shipra Singh, Professor, EDII, gave information to the students on the importance of education, research and training of entrepreneurship. She said the government of Gujarat had understood the importance of the function of EDII and had given 23 acre for the construction of its campus, while leading banks of India such as IDBI Bank, IFCI Ltd, ICICI Bank and SBI were sponsoring its project. She said the institute aimed at providing maximum benefit to the financial, industrial and business class people to make good profit out of this programme. Other institutes of different states were also coming up with similar plans, but due to the lack of resources and the number of seats in the course, deserving candidates were unable to take full advantages of the training. To cater to the problem of those left out masses, the EDII had come up with their distance-learning programme to make people benefit out of it. However, on the occasion, RP Nautiyal, Professor of the Entrepreneurship Department of Graphic Era, said the institute had initiated with the entrepreneurship programme for the development of the students, who were aspiring to seek business and its other operations as career. He also said the MBA students would have to appear for entrepreneurship paper other than specialisation subjects of the course.
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Maharana Partap Sports College lift hockey trophy
Dehradun, May 10 Ajay Singh (14th minute) scored the first field goal, while Manoj (33rd minute) netted the second field goal for the winning team. MPS defenders gave no chance to Welham Boys to score even a single goal. During the prize distribution ceremony Usha Kandhari, wife of former Welham Boys’ School Principal S Kandhari in whose memory this championship is being organised, was present. Both winning and runners-up teams were given away trophies. Prabhakar Nautiyal of MPS was adjudged as the best scorer of the tournament. Sahad Siddiqi of Welham Boys’ School was declared most promising player.
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Jharkhand Cricket Association
score easy victory
Dehradun, May 10 The JCA’s innings revolved around Ajit Dwivedy who played a scintillating knock of 137 runs off 100 balls. He hit 15 fours and four sixes in his innings. Opening batsman Rameez Nemat (44 off 41) ably supported him from the other end. Skipper Saurabh Tiwary (62) also played an innings of a captain. SP Gautam (55 off 26) played a cameo role to take the score of the team to a new high. The JCA set a mammoth a target of 330 runs in 40 overs for eight wickets. Tazammul Warsi took three wickets, Saurabh Dubey got two, and Anshuman Raj, Rizwan Ahmed Khan and Naveen Chaudhary pocketed a wicket each for Sahara India. In reply, Sahara India’s batting solely depended on Akash Verma (115 off 79). He sent the ball to the boundary 13 times and smashed four sixes too. None other batsmen could score any respectable individual number and the match gradually went in favour of JCA. Keshav Kumar was the pick of bowlers for the winning team getting four wickets in seven overs for 41 runs. Asif Fahad and Kuldeep Sharma got two wickets each. In another tough contest, Jaipur managed to win defeating Dena Bank by one run.
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Convent of Jesus and Mary surpass Doon International
Dehradun, May 10 Aastha scored eight points for the winning team and Sonal of Doon International scored two points. In another match, Hope Town girls defeated Aryan School. Summer Valley got the better of Doon Girls School 26-12. Aashna scored eight points in the win and Priya of DGS scored six points. Also Carman School defeated ST Joseph Academy 14-8. While in boys’ matches, Welham Boys’ School drubbed Constancia School 32-12. Gaurav of WBS top scored with 14 points while Pankaj scored six points for the losing team. St Joseph Academy had no problem beating St Mary School 25-10. Abhijeet shone in the victory with 12 points. Robin could just score four points for St Mary School. As many as 35 teams in both boys and girls sections are participating in this tournament. Top teams from each pool will qualify for the knockout match.
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Ajabpur Youngster drub Suffering Eleven by 155 runs
Dehradun, May 10 The winning team set a target of 192 runs at the loss of five wickets. Kuldeep with fiery 45 and Manish with disciplined 24 were the main scorers for the team. In reply, Suffering Eleven’s batsmen embarrassed their team as they were packed off for just 36 runs in 12 overs. Not even a single batsman could score a double figure number to save the face of the team. The team failed to reach a respectable score in font of the disciplined bowling attack of the Ajabpur Youngsters. Vijay of the Ajabpur Youngster team scalped four wickets and Manish took three wickets to post a humiliating win over the Suffering Eleven team.
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Though lakhs of rupees have been spent on turning Haridwar green and clean, nobody could see the results as compared to the budget. But the Clean-Green Haridwar campaign launched by Haridwar Municipality Chairman Kamal Johra has started showing some results after the first four days of its commencement in the pilgrim city.
Fear among villagers of Bishanpur Kundi still can be seen on their faces with half of the village bearing a deserted look. Due to the police action that took place two days back after a jumbo killed a man and villagers targeting the DFO and vandalising a police van too. After all this, the condition doesn’t seem to turn normal even in near future.
A team of eight members comprising Dr Bharat Kishore, Additional Director (Medical Education), Dr JDS
Rana, Joint Director and Registrar of Dental Council of India (DCI), Dr Ashwani
Dhobal, member of the DCI, carried out an inspection at the college today.
Under the aegis of the National Science and Technology Development Board and Fedrick Naoman
Stiffington, Germany, Graphic Era University, signed an agreement with the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
(EDII), Ahmadabad, here yesterday. The ceremony was organised during a three-day workshop held in the university.
Dehradun, May 10
The Jharkhand Cricket Association (JCA) registered a comfortable 129 runs victory over Sahara India in the ongoing 28th All-India Uttarakhand Gold Cup Cricket Tournament held on the Rangers College cricket ground here today.
