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Encroachments choking rivulets
Residents oppose power co’s carbon credits claim
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Kullu shawls, Kangra tea
Donate liberally to Red Cross: Guv
NREGA funds misappropriation
Poppy cultivation
Swami Chinmayanada remembered
vignettes
Trapping monkeys not a cakewalk
Social schemes boon for the needy
‘Health Minister should resign on moral grounds’
Teachers oppose rationalisation on old formula
Another feather in Harnot’s cap
70 nodal officials to tackle water woes
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Encroachments choking rivulets
Una, May 11 The river already choked with silt can pose a threat to the nearby bridge in the forth coming monsoon season. In case, the course of water in
the river changes, it can damage life and property of people residing in nearby areas. However, the Mining and Irrigation Department officials seem to be turning a blind eye to the entire situation. About 70 rivulets of the district, which are tributaries of the Swan, are infamous for their unpredictable behaviour during the monsoon. However, last week, the region witnessed heavy rainfall for just an hour and that resulted in the unprecedented rise in the water level in many rivulets. Even damage to property was reported as water of the Una rivulet entered houses developed near the rivulet bed, in a clear violation of the rules and regulations. At many places near the district headquarters, illegal colonisers have brought up colonies in the beds of rivulets, reducing them to small streams. Ideally, the NOC was required from the Irrigation Department before making any construction near the riverbeds. However, officials of the department said they had not issued any NOC in most of the cases. The irrigation officials alleged that in a large number of cases, the beds of rivulets were private property. “We have written to the government to empower us to stop encroachments on rivers, irrespective of the fact that they are private properties. However, till date, the government has not responded,” rued the officials. Proposals had been sent to the government many times to get riverbeds demarcated so that encroachments could be checked. However, the successive governments lacked the will to execute the proposal that was in the larger interest of public, the officials told The Tribune. The sources here said encroachments on beds of rivulets was also affecting the groundwater level in the area. The Una
subdivision had already been marked as one of the six most sensitive subdivisions, in terms of groundwater depletion in the state.
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Residents oppose power co’s carbon credits claim
Palampur, May 11 Highlighting the damage caused by the 15 MW project to the Neugal khad valley and to the water supply schemes on it, the memorandum points out that the project does not deserve any benefits under the CDM. The Neugal is a perennial tributary of the Beas originating from the Dhauladhar hills. Residents of the region are dependent on it for their daily water needs and irrigation. A traditional and well-developed kuhl (irrigation channel) system exists in the Palampur area, whereby villages get water for irrigation purposes. Palampur town and villages up to 30 km downstream with a population of 70,000 are dependent on the Neugal. However, unscientific muck disposal and landslides caused by the construction activity of the project, especially the road, has damaged and blocked the main water supply channels. “In the past three years, the Irrigation and Public Health Department, which officially governs these channels, has billed an amount of Rs 3 crore as penalty to the project proponents. Out of this amount, they have paid only about Rs 9 lakh till date,” it says. The citizen groups have raised another concern that is water pollution. “Waste from workers’ colonies of the project at the power house as well as the tunnel site is flowing untreated into the Neugal and contaminating its water. Heavy silt and muck in water, especially during monsoon, makes the river highly turbid and the water dangerous for drinking despite filtration. The forests of the Dhauladhar range and the Neugal need to be protected and conserved to ensure clean and sustained water supply. The Himalaya Niti, Palampur Citizens Environment Welfare Forum, Save Palampur and other NGOs in the region as well as residents of Bundla Panchayat and users of the kuhls have been raising these issues for the past three years. The memorandum also states that the project authorities have even not deposited the government money under the local area development authority so far. Therefore, no development activity and rehabilitation process was undertaken in the affected areas. “While there is a general concern about hydropower projects being touted as green and clean by developers in a bid to claim CDM benefits, the concerns are grave. "This is because the project is being built on a river that people are dependent upon for their water and livelihood needs. The Neugal forms an integral part of the landscape and life of the Palampur subdivision which the project proponents have deliberately tried to conceal", says Rahul Saxena of the Lok Vigyan Kendra, also a signatory to the memorandum.
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Kullu shawls, Kangra tea
SHIMLA, May 11 It has been almost five years since the Patent Information Centre at the State Council for Science, Technology and Environment got GI registration for Kullu shawls and Kangra tea but due to lack of proper implementation--both on the part of weavers and growers as well as government agencies, things are just the same. Even today Ludhiana factory-made shawls are being passed off as Kullu shawls made on looms to tourists as well as locals with the GI logo yet to be put on every genuine handwoven Kullu shawl. Registration under GI proves to be very valuable in enhancing the value of the genuine product and ensuring that the authentic product from a specific geographical area is sold. The use of GI certification ensures that the product possesses certain qualities due to its place of origin which no other product from another place can claim to have. The Kullu Shawls Weavers Association, comprising weavers who are the major stakeholders have been trying to organise all those engaged in making shawls. However, with little government help it has been an uphill task for them as there are hardly any finances and resources to undertake the task. Neither are the shawls bearing the GI logo nor the certification agency like the Central Wool Board officer at Kullu active. It is not just that a large number of weavers are unaware of GI registration of their product but even key industry players are unaware that these Himachali products have already been registered under GI. The fact that the President Designate of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Hari. S. Bhartia too was unaware of the actual position about GI came to light at a function here last week. Unaware of the factual posiiton he said Kangra tea and Kullu shawls must get GI registration to help build the brand. Till now more than 30 products from all over the country, including alphonso mangoes, Darjeeling tea, basmati rice, Alleppey green cardamom, Coorg cardamom, Kanchipuram silk saree, Kolhapuri Chappal, Chamba rumaal, Kangra tea and Kullu shawls have got GI registration from the Geographical Indications Registry at Chennai. Other HImachali products proposed to be documented for GI registration include red rice, Himachali apple, chuli (wild apricot) oil, kala zeera and chilgoza. The indiscriminate and illegal use of Kullu name for commercial interests is detrimental both to the consumer and the weaver. While inferior quality imitations are passed off to people at a heavy price, the weaver does not get value for his product and moreover the established reputation for their products gets a severe beating. "The GI registration was done in 2005 by the Patent Information Centre but the real benefit is yet to accrue as the weavers associations have not formalised the modalities so that every shawl bears the GI logo," said S.S. Chandel, who was instrumental in getting GI registration for three Himacahli products while working for the Council for Science and Environment. He asserts that GI registration would go a long way in putting a system in place to benefit the brand as well as the weaver. Various government agencies must do their bit rather than sleep over the fact that GI registration has been granted.
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Donate liberally to Red Cross: Guv
Mandi, May 11 Addressing a gathering at a state-level Red Cross function here recently, the Governor said funds collected by the Red Cross were being used for the welfare of the poor and the needy. She appealed to well-off sections of society to donate liberally for the welfare of the poor. In another Red Cross function in Mandi, she said urbanisation in India was growing rapidly, which had resulted in unplanned growth. She lauded the efforts of the Himachal Pradesh Red Cross Society in this direction. She inaugurated a Red Cross laboratory and launched a programme “Prayas”. She also distributed artificial limbs and clippers to the disabled and announced Rs 11,000 each for the performers of the cultural programme. She also inaugurated a blood donation camp organised by BSNL, Mandi, to mark the occasion. Dr Amandeep Garg, Mandi deputy commissioner, gave a detailed account of activities of the District Red Cross Society, Mandi. Punjab National Bank gave a cheque of Rs 25,000 as donation to society.
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NREGA funds misappropriation
Kangra, May 11 An inquiry by the Kangra block development officer has reportedly found the charges correct. Hari Ram and Sant Ram, former village pradhans, Rakesh Kumar, president of the Shiv Shakti Club and other residents have launched a crusade against Sudharshana Devi, village pradhan, Naresh Kumar, panchayat secretary, and Hardeep Kumar, technical assistant. Villagers allege that Sudharshana Devi made a number of fake job cards, She even made a job card in her own name and in the name of her daughter, Anita Devi, who lives in Jalandar, Punjab, they allege. “We received documents through the RTI that proved our allegations,” a villager disclosed. They further allege that Rs 1.60 lakh and Rs 42,500 were withdrawn for a village path and a retaining wall, respectively, but the works were not carried out at all. The villagers identified 11 such works which were either not carried out or excess funds were withdrawn through fake job cards. They also allege that the panchayat secretary and the technical assistant were hand in glove with the pradhan. Bachan Singh, BDO Kangra, told The Tribune that he had carried out the inquiry and the charges levelled against the trio were found correct. He confirmed misappropriation of funds through fake job cards and said he had submitted the report with all records and statements of people last month to the Kangra deputy commissioner for action against the trio. He said allegations of such nature were also under investigation in the panchayats of Trasu, Balol, Borkuwala and Tiara. The Sammela villagers allege that even after the BDO’s inquiry, which proved misappropriation, the district authorities have not sacked the accused. RS Gupta, Kangra deputy commissioner, said he had ordered an inquiry and the inquiry report was yet to reach his office.
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Poppy cultivation
Mandi, May 11 A survey in the Chauhar valley, Karsog, Balh Ropa and Batheri areas reveals that villagers want to shun the poppy cultivation, but they need an alternative and sustainable source of income. Earlier, the police, forest and revenue departments and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had jointly launched a drive against poppy cultivation in the district, but the police managed to register only two cases as villagers had destroyed plants sown in scanty pockets in the valley before the police stepped into the area. Mandi DC Amandeep Garg and SP SM Agnihotri had addressed people in Sudhar, Shilbhudhani and other villages, asking them to shun illegal cultivation and adopt alternative crops and avail benefits from schemes like Pt Deen Dayal Bagwan Smridhi Yojna, Doodh Ganga etc. OP Sharma, chief adviser, Malana Vikalp, said there was a major shift towards alternative crops. “We have been sensitising villagers in 15 panchayats in the Chauhar valley for the past six months,” he added. The SP said the team detected not even one per cent of illegal crop this time while last year it had destroyed illegal crops on over 150 bighas. This time, it did not exceed even 20 bighas, he added. He said the team detected 917 poppy plants in private land in Chhalvat village in Karsog, cultivated by Sunder Lal, who had been booked under the NDPS Act. The police also seized 1,975 plants cultivated in the Paddar area and arrested Meera Kumar, he added. He said they had warned villagers not to cultivate the plant, as it was an offence under the NDPS Act.
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Swami Chinmayanada remembered
Kangra May 11 The day started with prayers at the samadhi of Swami Chinmayanada led by Swami Sabhodanand, the regional chief of the mission. The devotees took a pledge to adhere to his teachings. Swami Chinmayananda started the tradition of gyan yagnas in an effort to spread the message of the Gita and Upanishads, leading to the foundation of the Chinmaya Mission in 1953. Swami Chinmayananda opened numerous centres and ashrams worldwide,besides building schools, hospitals, nursing homes and clinics. His yearning to help villagers get basic necessities led to the eventual creation of the Chinmaya Organisation for Rural Development (CORD), whose director, Dr. Kshama Metre, was recently awarded the Padma Shri for social work. Swami Chinmayananda died on August 3, 1993, in San Diego, California, and his mortal remains were placed in a samadhi on August 19, 1993, at Sidhbari Ashram near here.
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vignettes
I recently went to Kendriya Vidyalaya at Jakhu. I was nostalgic because I had studied there when it was 'Sir Harcourt Butler Higher Secondary School' so named after Sir Harcourt who was a member of education in the Government of India 1910 onwards. A new building has replaced the old one. I missed the old one - missed the jungle that was there below the school boundary and also missed the snow pit that existed just above the playground. The pit used to be a great mystery for us. We could never understand why a pit was made by the original British resident of the building to collect snow in it. The pit was circular with a tin roof raised on two-f00t high wooden pillars. A wired net around, it had a door for climbing down the pit through a ladder. The diameter of the pit was about six to eight feet with a matching depth and it was in the shade of trees (See sketch).
The low height was to keep the sun out and the wired net was there to have a free flow of air. There could be many such pits but those I know of were at Harvington, Wildflower Hall, and Barnes Court, besides the one described. All of these had the same characteristics and were used for the same purpose. Lord Kitchener got the snow pit built at Wildflower Hall around 1903-04. It was to make ice in the days before refrigeration. Situated in a sun-less spot, the covered pit was packed with snow, which compacted into ice with the weight of its own mass by the end of the winter. Ice from the pit used to cater to the requirements of the kitchen there. The pit was also used for refrigerating eatables like fish and meat; milk and butter and giving chill to beer and whisky. It was easy for the British in Shimla to get ice in the summer through the snow pits but Dickason writes that the British working in the plains of India could produce 25-30 tonnes of ice in a night with the help of excess of 2,000 workers and many acres of land dug up for ice trenches. The earliest method of refrigeration for storage of food in caves and cold springs gradually changed to keeping food in cellars, outdoor window boxes, in the snow or under water. The perishable food had to be preserved by drying, smoking, pickling, heating, and icing. One step towards icing was to have snow pits. This idea originated in ancient Rome. Roman Emperor Elgabalus used donkey trains to transport snow to his hot summer villa for 'air-conditioning'. Mid-eastern Sultans used their camel-driven postal system to transport snow all the way from the Lebanese mountains to Cairo, Egypt. In the early days of the British Empire, perishable Norwegian ice would be sent 8,000 miles around the Cape of Good Hope to India. Athenaeums describes how during the siege of the Indian city of Petra: "Alexander [the Great] dug 30 large trenches close to one another, and filled them with snow, and then he heaped on them snow branches of oak; for in that way snow would last a long time." There are authorities that report that Indian Mughals too imported ice till the year 1600. The times changed and the world, today, is dependent on a scientific and effective system of refrigeration. Snow harvesting is a thing of the past but the tides are returning to snow collection as Japan's New Chitose Airport in Hokkadia will keep things nice and cool in the summer using snow collected during the winter. This new technique that provides 30 per cent of its cooling needs reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 2100 tonnes. The dangers of global warming demand return to nature again.
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Trapping monkeys not a cakewalk
While the department has set up three sterilisation centres with a capacity to sterilise about 20,000 monkeys annually, it is facing problems in catching them for the purpose as professional monkey trappers from Uttar Pradesh are not willing to do the job for a paltry sum of Rs 115 per catch. Further, locally trained villagers lack the requisite skills to carry out the job efficiently. More so because in states like Delhi, they are being paid Rs 450 per monkey and with the Commonwealth Games drawing near, the amount is going to be doubled under crash programme. The issue was discussed at a recent meeting of the State Zoo and Conservation Breeding Society and it was observed that locally trained monkey catchers were able to trap only 15 to 20 per cent (5 to 10 monkeys) in a troop whereas professional catchers trapped 80 per cent or even more. Worse, lack of proper knowledge about social structure and behaviour of simians among the local catchers only disturbed the troop and made the members vigilant enough to evade traps. "Once a troop is disturbed, it has to be left alone for at least a year before resuming attempts to trap the members," points out Sanjiva Pandey, Chief Conservator of Forests, Faunal Diversity and Protected Areas. A major problem is that traditional monkey trappers do not reveal the tricks of their trade to the locals and, as such, they could never learn the secrets of their success. The department now plans to make selective use of local catchers and deploy them only in populated areas where monkeys spread out and could be trapped without causing alarm in the troop. Besides, they would be provided further training and educated about social structure and dynamics of the troops so that they could carry out the job with adequate precautions, Pandey explains. Himachal Pradesh is the only state in the country which had started mass sterilisation of simians and drawn up a plan to operate one lakh of them over the next five years. The programme has made substantial progress in the Shimla region as evident from the fact that almost 5 per cent of the trapped monkeys are already sterilised. However, the impact will be visible on the simian population over the next few years.
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Social schemes boon for the needy
Bilaspur, May 11 Nandita Gupta, deputy commissioner, said the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment had sanctioned 2,045 new social service pensions to various deserving categories this year in the district, making a total of 17,310 pensions. Last year, there were 15,265 such pensioners who were provided pension worth more than Rs 6.43 crore. “The department has given financial assistance of Rs 1.11 crore to 397 beneficiaries for the construction of houses under the homeless grant scheme, with Rs 38,500 given to each beneficiary who does not have annual income of more than Rs 17,000. Such families are also being given Rs 15,000 each for the repair of their houses. As many as 293 women of poor families were provided sewing machines costing Rs 3.31 lakh to help them earn livelihood,” she added. “Chief Minister’s ‘kanyadaan yojna’ is proving another blessing to poor people who have either lost the head of the family or he is ailing, and their income does not exceed Rs 15,000. Such 93 families were provided rupees Rs 11,100 each as help for the marriage of their daughter and a total Rs 10.23 lakh were spent on this scheme last year”. Even 40 per cent handicapped persons got marriage allowance of a total Rs 1.31 lakh while 31 beneficiaries of inter-caste marriages were given financial aid of Rs 7.75 lakh, the DC added.
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‘Health Minister should resign on moral grounds’
Kangra, May 11 State president of National Consumer Awareness Group Shakti Chand raised the demand while talking to The Tribune here. He said in-service candidates alleged that their merit and the merit of direct candidates were combined to extend benefit to the direct candidates. The court directed that such action was not permissible. He demanded a judicial probe into the matter in mixing up merit lists and ignoring the DRPGMC during the counselling. He said such a mess cropped up for the first time and the Health Minister has no right to be in the Cabinet on moral grounds. He alleged that the DRPGMC, Tanda, had no facilities of neurology, cardiology and nephrology. Despite an investment of Rs 450 crore by the Centre, the college was a referral hospital only, he added. He said there were no endoscopy technicians available in the hospital and MRI, scanning and ultrasounds were getting delayed by months, adding that there was a nexus between doctors and medical shop owners. He said a renowned neurologist and founder of the Department of Neurology, Government Medical College, Jammu, offered services to the DRPGMC, but the government was not allegedly interested in the hospital development, thus, it kept the decision of his appointment pending for months till he joined another hospital. He stated that two assistant professors, Dr Sanjay Mahajan (Medicines) and Dr Rama Thakur (OBG) of the DRPGMC, Tanda, were placed on secondment basis to IGMC Shimla and KNH Shimla. Due to the alleged negligence of the state, Tanda Medical College was deprived of Rs 150 crore-grants from the Centre for bringing the college to AIIMS level, Chand added.
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Teachers oppose rationalisation on old formula
Nurpur, May 11 Onkar Rana, district president of the union, here demanded rationalisation, keeping in view the current year’s enrolment, 1:30 PTR and minimum 24 study periods. He also criticised the decision of the Education Department for denying promotions to science-trained graduate teachers with non-commerce backgrounds and postgraduates (science), who had studied through correspondence and distance education. He rued that these teachers had been declared ineligible for the post of lecturers and urged Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal to intervene and stop the alteration in the recruitment and promotion rules.
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Another feather in Harnot’s cap
The inclusion of his short story entitled "Maa Reads" in the book Grey Areas, an anthology of Indian fiction on ageing brought out by Oxford University Press has added yet another feather to the cap of S.R. Harnot, a renowned Hindi fiction writer from the state.
He has a number of fiction titles to his credit. Besides Hidimb, a novel, his other books, including Akashbel, Panja, Peeth Par Pahar, Daroshi and Mitti ke Log, are collections of short stories. Hailing from the remote village of Chanawog in Suni tehsil has in-depth knowledge of the rich hill culture, particularly the religious customs and rituals. It is hardly surprising that his stories are mostly set in pastoral background and hinge on themes from rural areas of the state. Recently, his story on the practice of human sacrifice prevalent in the interior of Himachal,'Jeenkathi", appeared in the special number of Journal of Literature and Aesthetics on Indian Dalit literature published from Kerala. The story has been translated by Prof RK.Shukla of Varanasi. One of Harnot's stories, "Billiyan Batiyaati Hain", has also been included in a Hindi collection Kathan Main Pahaar edited by famous poet and critic Shriniwas Shrikant. His 14 Hindi short stories have been translated into English by Saroj Vashishth and published under the title of Mafia. A keen observer of social and religious customs Harnot has wielded his pen effectively to describe them in minute details. He is currently posted as a Deputy General Manager in the State Tourism Development Corporation. The latest Oxford book puts him in the exalted company of wellknown writers like Krishna Baldev Vaid, Bhisham Sahani, Dhoomil , Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto. His achievements have won him many honours, including International Indu Sharma Katha UK award, Himachal Sahitya Academi Award, Creative News Foundation (Delhi) Smaan and the All-India JC Joshi Shabad Sadhak Smaan.
Umang takes blind, deaf
on picnic
The joy of the 120 inmates of the Institute for Blind and Deaf, Dhalli, knew no bounds as NGO Umang Foundation took them to Fun World (amusement park) on a picnic-cum-educational tour on Sunday. They not only had good fun but also gathered some knowledge about global warming, climate change and other environment-related issues for which Dr Alka from the Department of Science and Technology was specially invited. A free dental check-up was also organised and they were all provided tooth brushes and paste. Some families also joined the picnic to make the inmates feel part of the mainstream and that society cared about them. A day earlier the foundation observed Thalassaemia Day by organising a blood donation camps for the benefit of children afflicted with the disease. Justice Deepak Gupta inaugurated the camp by donating blood. Umang Foundation has been fighting for the rights of physically challenged and other vulnerable sections of society and it was instrumental in highlighting the cases of exploitation of girls at the tribal hostel in Salogra early this year.
Product promotion seminars
The era of crass commercialisation and competitiveness have forced the marketing people to adopt new marketing strategies every day to sell their products. One convenient way of drawing people's attention towards a product is by organising 'seminars'. All sorts of people from educational institutions to coaching centres, banking and insurance companies etc organise such 'seminars' in small towns and big cities of the state quite often. Since marketing people are always keen to get publicity in the newspapers they ensure to send invites to media people too to these 'seminars'. While seminars in literal terms means serious academic exercises, mediapersons are always keen to make good use of these occasions from the news coverage point of view. But many times they are taken for a ride when instead of attending a curious session they find themselves getting sound product promotion lectures in these so-called 'seminars'. (Contributed by
Rakesh Lohumi and D.P.Gupta)
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70 nodal officials to tackle water woes
Kangra, May 11 Disclosing this here yesterday, IPH Minister Ravinder Singh Ravi said nodal officials would be available in all 52 divisions, 12 circle offices besides four zonal offices round the clock to redress the problems of the people. While expressing concern over the drought-like situation in 12 blocks of the state which included Bhoranj, Toni Devi and Bijdi in Hamirpur district, Gumarwin, Sadar and Jandol in Bilaspur district, Kunihar and Dharampur in Solan district, Gopalpur and Dharampur in Mandi district, Bangana in Una district and Pragpur in Kangra district, he said to face the situation Rs 15.61 crore have been sanctioned and out of which Rs 6 crore were released. Ravi said the deputy commissioners had been directed to supply drinking water in tankers to the affected blocks. He asked people to avoid construction work in the current situation. He announced a new IPH subdivision in Kangra for carrying out sewerage works and assured that it would be operational in the town by the end of next year. He said the new SDO office would start working from next week. Ravi was in the town to organise workers to join the "Nayia Rally" on May 9 at Shimla to be addressed by the national BJP chief. He said from Kangra district 9,000 workers would join the rally, which was beginning of the struggle against injustice meted to the people of the hill state at the hands of Congress-led central government.
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Rivulets in Una are being choked with encroachments and dumping of waste materials. Huge dumps of earth in riverbeds are visible from the main road. The dumps are just about 100m from the bridge over the rivulet.
I recently went to Kendriya Vidyalaya at Jakhu. I was nostalgic because I had studied there when it was 'Sir Harcourt Butler Higher Secondary School' so named after Sir Harcourt who was a member of education in the Government of India 1910 onwards. A new building has replaced the old one. I missed the old one - missed the jungle that was there below the school boundary and also missed the snow pit that existed just above the playground.
The pit used to be a great mystery for us. We could never understand why a pit was made by the original British resident of the building to collect snow in it.
The inclusion of his short story entitled "Maa Reads" in the book Grey Areas, an anthology of Indian fiction on ageing brought out by Oxford University Press has added yet another feather to the cap of S.R.
Harnot, a renowned Hindi fiction writer from the state.
Shimla, May 11
A collection of stories and poetic legends the book has been edited by Ira Raja of the Department of English, University of Delhi. Originally written in Hindi and published as "Maa Pardhti Hai" in the monthly magazine Hans, the translation of the story first appeared in the literary magazine Atenea, published from America, in 2004.