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Recruitment Process for Govt Posts
GMVN to pay interim grant to Grade III, IV staff
Saint accuses doctor of
fraudulently removing kidney
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Saints, traders oppose surcharge
Saints and mini traders hold a protest against surcharge proposal in Haridwar
on Thursday. Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaur Sadhu caught stealing temple bells
US Professor endorses certification of forestry mgt practices
Agitating sanitation staff get assurance from DM, call off stir
GMVN staff seek increment as per Sixth Pay panel
Tributes paid to freedom fighter Tayyabji
Congress resorting to petty politics, says Kapoor
Congress misleading public: Bhasin
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Recruitment Process for Govt Posts Tribune News Service
Haridwar, June 10 The State Employees Joint Union and the Uttarakhand Agitators Forum were at the forefront of this protest with its activists protesting heavily and locking post offices where forms were available. Activists of both forums as well as several local aspirants against the sale of these forms had locked the city post office, thus the sale was suspended on June 7. And now the Chief Minister’s order about the recruitment process suspension and appointment of a committee under Principal Secretary Nrip Singh Napalchiyal, who will submit the report in a fortnight, has brought smiles on for the opposing people. Notably, the state government had authorised the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission for the recruitment of 337 posts, including 30 of Niab Tehsildar, 62 of Food Supplies Inspectors, 27 of Child Development Officer, 24 of Passenger Tax Inspector, one of Regional Pesticide officer, 15 of Entertainment Tax Officer, 22 of Excise Officer, five of Sugarcane Officers and 36 of Sugarcane Development Supervisor among others that come under the lower rung of the state government posts. Terming it as a right step in sync with the sentiments of the people, State Employees Union leader Dr Hari Narayan Joshi said until the government protected the rights of the state people it could not be said to be the local state government. They also demanded such lower-rung posts be put out of purview of the State Public Service Commission. While in a meeting at the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal city office, statehood agitators congratulated each and every person involved in the protest against the recruitment process that saw all-India participants vying for the Uttarakhand posts, which put balance hugely in favour of other states’ participants. “We demand of a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry into the matter as how come these forms were available at nationwide post offices even before they were available at statewide post office counters,” said JP Pandey, founder of the manch. The joint forums have decided to bring the matter into the notice of Governor Margaret Alva, as it’s related to the benefit of a state which is into its existence of just a decade. Dehradun: Students of DAV College today appreciated the decision of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank to discontinue the sale of application forms for various posts of state government that were advertised by state the Public Service Commission on May 29 this year. The Chief Minister had yesterday terminated the selection process of 337 posts in 16 categories for class IV after an uproar over denial of job opportunities to the local youth. He had also constituted a high-level committee to look into the allegations. The committee headed by the Chief Secretary would give its report within 15 day. Ashish Bahuguna, president of DAV College Students Organisation, said the decision would benefit the local youth. Former ABVP president Jitender Rawat “Moni” stated the advertisement for the posts was first published in 2004 and the students who had applied for the same had almost crossed the desired age limit now. He demanded that they should be given relaxation in age. He said the youth in Uttarakhand should also be provided 85 per cent of reservation in the jobs as done in Himachal Pradesh.
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GMVN to pay interim grant to Grade III, IV staff
Dehradun, June 10 Anil
Nautiyal, Chairman of GMVN, said the regular employees of the Nigam got incentives of the Sixth Pay Commission, but daily wagers did not get anything. So keeping the increasing inflation in sight, it was decided to raise their salary by providing them interim help. This move has been seen in connection with last month’s strike waged by GMVN employees who were assured of a concrete solution before June 11. The Board has also decided to give VRS to 22 employees who have asked for it, and empowered the MD to take decisions in this regard in future. Putting a break to the speculations that the GMVN is selling out all Tourist Rest Houses on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode, Nautiyal said, “We are creating a new eco-friendly bamboo resort by dismantling a closed flush door factory in Kotdwar which gave us a loss of Rs 6 crore and 75 lakh since 1983. For this Rs 12-crore project, a grant of Rs 5 crore will be taken from the Central government, the rest the GMVN will manage on loan. The resort will be created with the Nigam’s own resources and managed by its own people which thrashes all rumours that the Nigam is selling its properties”. Managing Director VVRC Purushottam said only loss-making properties such as in Arakot were being considered to be handed over in the PPP mode. Informing about the much-talked about issue of the Nigam being sidelined in
Auli, he said, “It is sad that the news was spread by insiders. In Auli, unified command of all concerned departments is being created under the command of the Commissioner Garhwal in the wake of the SAF Winter Games to be held from December 28-31. And since there is no other place to stay, therefore the GMVN guest house has been closed for the tourists to accommodate staff and officers of these departments for these six months”. He added that Gandola rides would remain in control of the GMVN and the chair cars which had not been functioning well there would also be repaired. |
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Saint accuses doctor of
fraudulently removing kidney
Haridwar, June 10 Saint Jai Sahu, a resident of Gau Ghat near Har-ki-Pauri, Haridwar, today alleged that a doctor working at Bengali Hospital fraudently removed his kidney. He had been going to the doctor to get a wound in his left leg cured. Showing his abdomen which had several stitches, Sahu said he had gone for checkup at Bengali Hospital and was referred to Dr PK Das who on June 2 pointed the need of his having an operation. He was taken to the Operation Theatre and given an injection, but when he recovered consciousness, he felt pain in his stomach and saw eight stitches in his stomach, particularly in the kidney region. When he enquired, he was told by the doctor that due to the wound worsening, an operation in the stomach was done. But not satisfied with the reply, today Sahu went to Kankhal police station and informed the police about the whole episode. “We sought an explanation from the doctor, but he stated some medical terms for the need of the operation in the stomach instead of the leg. We fear that it may have been done for the sake of a kidney as the saint doesn’t have any family,” said Ajay Sharma, a neighbour of the aggrieved. As soon as the news spread of kidney racket suspicion, people and media personnel gathered at Kankhal police station. The police then referred the complainant for an ultrasound scan at a private Dhanwantri Medical Centre. Till the filing of the story, the report was awaited. Dr Das was unavailable for comments and Bengali Hospital receptionist denied any such incident taking place.
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Saints, traders oppose surcharge
Haridwar, June 10 While today the meeting called on to discuss the budget proposals was also marred by chaos as the user surcharge issue doesn’t seem to be boiling down easily. Municipal Chairman Kamal Johra faced opposition from its party councillors in the House and there were chaotic scenes with verbal duels between the Chairman and councillors. This faction, which is said to be closer to state Urban Development Minister Madan Kaushik, has been posing problems galore for the municipal Chairman who then had to take help of opposition Congress, BSP and SP councillors to see House proceedings go his way. Today, too, he faced stiff opposition from the party councillors with Anil Arora, vice-leader in the ruling BJP, leading the BJP councillors. Leader of Opposition Sanjay Sharma has termed the anti-user charge councillors as anti-development citing that people of Haridwar in any way are still giving money in various ways in the name of cleanliness, but still not getting good service. He said to amicably solve this issue certain provisions of user surcharge could be altered, but going totally against this aspect would only derail the Solid Waste Management Scheme which in view of Haridwar city’s status was quite imperative. Meanwhile, saints and mini traders have come in the open against the levying of user surcharge under the JNNURM Solid Waste Management Project. Mini traders comprising hawkers, vendors have warned of agitation if surcharge was also taken from them. In a memorandum submitted to executive officer BL Arya, the Mini Traders Association has cited the ruling of Allahabad High Court order of November 18, 2009, wherein a double bench had ruled levying of user surcharge on hawkers as illegal by the Bareilly city corporation’s under UP Urban Street Vending Business on Pavements Rules (2007). “Various states have formed special hawking-vending zones and by their registration license fee are taken which is right but not such indirect charges which are being proposed by Haridwar municipality. This will only invite exploitation of the mini traders which we oppose in totality,” said leader of mini traders Sanjay Chopra. The saint community, too, has come out in open against the surcharge being proposed to be taken from dharamshalas, akhadas and ashramas. Akhada parishad has strictly opposed the proposals under the Solid Waste Management Project. Akhada parishad national general secretary Baba Hatyogi has opposed the BJP state governments’s anti-Hindu stance. He said now taxes would be levied on even bhandaras of ashrams, which was totally uncalled for. He said the saints din’t think that the Haridwar municipality by any means was bounded to imply user surcharge under the JNNURM Solid Waste Management Scheme and it was so then ashrams and dharamshalas should be put of the user surcharge purview. Akhadas have voiced their protest over the surcharge issue and warned the government that if clear decision was not taken in this regard, they would agitate against the government under joint front. |
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Sadhu caught stealing temple bells Nainital, June 10 He was nabbed while he was attempting to steal bells installed in the Naulinga temple in the Sangarh area. A village headman tipped off the police that the sadhu was going towards the Dharamghar of the temple after removing the bells. A police team reached the spot and nabbed the accused with the bells. The police is now interrogating him in connection with a large number of thefts of idols and bells from other temples in the area. The sadhu was living as the priest of the Shiva temple in Majhera. The theft of temple bells has been reported regularly across the state. Congress leader Dhirendra Pratap had even tried to make it a poll issue during his campaign in support of his party candidates in the last Lok Sabha elections held last year. Woman murdered
The body of a woman was found covered in a blanket in a sugarcane field near her house in the Bindukhatta area of Haldwani on Wednesday evening. The victim has been
identified as 37-year-old Bhagwati Devi of Rawat Nagar village. Her husband, along with their two children, is missing. The body was discovered by village women who had gone out to collect grass. They informed men from the village who later informed the police about the murder. The police is learnt to have found that blood had oozed out from her nose and mouth before she died. One of her ear-rings and her mangalsutra were missing. The body has been sent for a post-mortem examination and it is being assumed that the woman had been murdered. Preliminary investigations have revealed that the victim was allegedly not on good terms with her husband. 5 hurt in group clash
An armed clash was reported from the Gandhinagar locality in Haldwani last evening. According to information, two groups of youngsters armed with sharp-edged weapons clashed over a minor tiff between two children. One of the groups allegedly resorted to firing Five persons were injured in the incident and admitted to Sushila Tewari Hospital. The police raided the residences of those involved in the clash, but managed to nab only one person. |
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US Professor endorses certification of forestry mgt practices
Dehradun, June 10 Products sourced from forests with a certification will also do a whole lot of good by increasing their market value and North America started seriously thinking in this direction after the Earth Summit and Montreal Agreement in the nineties. This was stated by Associate Professor Rene Germain, faculty of forest and natural resource management, State University of New York’s College of Environment Science and Forestry, Syracuse, while speaking to The Tribune here on Tuesday. “Besides vouching for sustainable forestry practices, it is another way of balancing social, economic and environment needs. The process based certification like the ISO:14001 only relates to an individual management practices that may not vouch for sustainable forestry management practices, while the performance based certification is undertaken by a third party and minutest details are cross checked by independent agencies,” he said. The only hitch is that in North America it is voluntarily carried and is also a very costly affair. “However, Europe does not accept pulp and paper products if they are not certified, a certificate then can help countries increase their market share. In the United States the certification exercise gained currency after the Earth Summit and Montreal Agreement in 1993,” he said. The Professor was in Dehradun at the invitation of Doon University and next week will be taking the foresters from Dehradun to the Thivatis Wood Lot region of North America where sustainable forest practices have been developed. It may be emphasised that different countries have come up with their own certification and Forest Management Institute, Bhopal, has too has come with Bhopal India Process for forest types. However, it will be hard to develop a uniform singular certification agency due to legal barriers and chain of custody. Countries like Uganda, Indonesia and others have come up with their own versions keeping in mind their own needs. |
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Agitating sanitation staff get assurance from DM, call off stir
Dehradun, June 10 The workers, who were satisfied with the meeting, decided to call off their strike only when they got all assurances in writing. Chader Mohan Kala, leader of the workers, said the DM asked Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) officials to prepare a board resolution regarding their demand for regularisation which he would forward to the state government. The DM also assured them of considering them first whenever daily wagers would be needed in the DMC, he said. Kala said they also demanded that their wages should directly be given through the DMC rather than councillors, who, along with supervisors, took away chunks of their salaries on one pretext or the other. This would also end perpetual delay in the disbursement of their wages, he added. Sympathising with the plight of workers, Leader of Opposition in the DMC Ashok Verma said, “Considering their low wages, we not only asked for a raise in their salaries, but also an insurance package where they could be duly compensated in accident cases”. Besides, the DM also directed not to make these workers work extra, for instance collecting garbage from households, a matter which instigated them to go on strike, since they are not paid for it. He said the picture on strike would have become clear today itself if the DMC had not been closed for the day to pay condolence on the death of a sanitation worker. Harak Singh Rawat, Assistant Mukhya Nagar Adhikari, who came under the scanner for making sanitation workers collect garbage despite their opposition to it thereby making them go on strike, reiterated his stand before the DM that he left it to the willingness of the workers to accept collecting garbage from households. Rawat, however, refused to come to any agreement over direct disbursement of their wages saying that since these workers worked under a committee system, therefore, their wages would continue to be distributed through that channel only, unless the DMC made a change in that.
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GMVN staff seek increment as per Sixth Pay panel
Dehradun, June 10 Though happy at the increment in their salaries of Rs 2,000 for 324 grade III employees and Rs 1,100 for 418 grade IV, the employees were not happy for having put these slabs under the category of interim help instead of putting these in an inclusive package on the lines of the Sixth Pay Commission. Purushottam Puri, president of the Employees Union, said, “We doubt that the administration can take this interim help back any time. But the Chairperson said to make an inclusive package the proposal will have to be sent to the state government which can take a long time to actually happen. So we agreed to it”. The Chairperson assured them of considering their other demands in the meeting, which were not to shift administrative establishment and the accounts department from headquarters in the name of decentralisation. They also asked him to give advantage of seniority to 100 employees who had been working on seasonal basis since 1998. Puri said in the wake of the turnaround, they would reconsider their decision to go on strike from June 13.
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Tributes paid to freedom fighter Tayyabji
Mussoorie, June 10 Chief guest on the occasion Central Minister of Minority Affairs Salman Khursheed offered floral tributes on the portrait of the great leader. Khursheed reiterated the resolve to convert Southwood Estate, freedom fighter’s residence, which was often visited by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, into a national trust and museum. He informed that Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh had also given his verbal consent for the same, but the only hindrance was obtaining the authentic documents of the estate as these were missing from the Rashtrapati Bhawan. He added Central Urban Minister and Harish Rawat have also agreed for establishing the national trust at Southwood Estate. He said the reason to bring Sayeeda S Hamid from the Planning Commission was to begin the process of establishing Amina Tayyabji and Abbas Tayyabji Public School in the town for which Abba Tayyabji spent his whole life. He said the efforts were on to name the Kingcraig-Library Road in the name of the great freedom fighter. |
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Congress resorting to petty politics, says Kapoor
Nainital, June 10 The party has said the Congress is now trying to take credit for all developmental works that have been done
during the past three years, since the BJP came into power. These charges were levelled by the newly appointed vice-chairman of the state Media
Advisory Committee Anil Kapoor. Speaking to mediapersons here today, Kapoor praised the Chief Minister for initiatives taken by him to ensure the
all-round development of the state. Repeating his party’s stance, he once again accused the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre for not enhancing the
period of special industrial package for Uttarakhand. He said despite Nishank approaching the Prime Minister with the five Congress Lok Sabha members from the state on this issue, the Centre was yet to announce a clear-cut decision. |
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Alva holds meeting on tourism
Nainital, June 10 The Governor discussed issues like adventure tourism, heritage tourism along with tourism potential related to natural beauty and sporting activities. She also took up matters pertaining to disposal of waste water supply, traffic management and bio-diversity conservation. Alva said such interactions can act as a beginning for meaningful discussions leading to solid decisions at the government level. |
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Congress misleading public: Bhasin
Dehradun, June 10 He said the BJP government under Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank had spent Rs 514.63 crore under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) that was started in 2006-07. The Congress government had spent only Rs 48.5 crore. The BJP government had spent Rs 442.36 crore under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, and the Congress only Rs 192.88crore during its five-year
rule, he added. |
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Haridwar, June 10
