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Empowering Ayurvedic Docs
Primary school without a roof; three teachers for 183 students
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Villagers unable to return home to sow summer crops
Crime control, traffic management top priority: SSP
CM, Arya to honour Congress workers today
Rural youth to be trained in disaster management
Thrashing of DAV College teacher flayed
3,235 bags of soft stones seized
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Empowering Ayurvedic Docs
Dehradun, April 21 The minister had recently announced that in order to tide over the shortage of doctors, the government was examining all legal aspects before approving the proposal. However, the move has not gone down well with allopathic doctors. “We had protested the the decision of BJP government to appoint 250 ayush doctors in the common health centres that had no medical officers, but the government went ahead and appointed several ayurvedic doctors. The government should go by the Supreme Court ruling and maintain the sanctity of different streams of medicine,” said Dr SD Joshi, former president of the Provincial Medical and Health Services (PMHS). All along, the allopathic doctors have been maintaining that the government needs a bold approach if it wants to tide over the shortage of doctors in the state. But it should not take steps that would be detrimental to the interests of the allopathic doctors. “We are yet to lay hands on the Himachal Pradesh government policy of empowering ayurvedic doctors. If the Uttarakhand government is keen to fix the allopathic medical services, it should not tweak the existing arrangement,” said Dr DP Joshi, secretary, PMHS. |
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Primary school without a roof; three teachers for 183 students
Haridwar, April 21 The school has no roof and students here sit on jute mats. The ceiling of the school had collapsed dring the monsoon and its building was in a dilapidated condition. No step had been taken by the department despite numerous applications by the school Principal and parents of the students. A total of 183 students study in this primary school which also has a poor teacher-student ratio. Only three teachers have been appointed in the school to teach 183 students. School principal Furkan Ahmed said, “According to the government directives, the 40:1 students-teacher ratio should be adhered to. For there are only three teachers in the school, it becomes difficult for us to give personal attention to students.” He said there was no electricity in the school with classes getting cancelled during rain. The rooftop of the building has not been reconstructed. They also tried to collect social fund from parents and societies but that, too, didn’t fructified as most of the children studying here hail from poor families. The summer has already started taking its toll on the health of the students studying under the sun. Even after bringing the problem to the notice of the Education Department, no heed has been paid to the condition of the school. Ehsaan Ali, father of a ward, commented that lakhs were being spent on the security of ministers but nothing was being done to provide these students with a shelter. The parents’ body of the school, Shiksha Samiti, has written to the Director, Education Department, and also brought the problem to the notice of the Jwalapur MLA, who have given meagre assurances. DEO Anil Kumar Bhoj said he would take stock of
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Villagers unable to return home to sow summer crops
Pithoragarh, April 21 The villagers of the lower Darma area, led by Zila panchayat member Aan Singh Rokaya, met District Magistrate, Pithoragarh, CMS Bisht last evening and requested him to speed up the work of removing debris from the road to the Darma and Byans valleys. “They are camping at Dar village as the Sobla-Sela road is blocked by the debris generated due to a blast at Pumbabe by a construction agency last month. The road has not been cleared till date,” said Rokaya. Rokaya said the villagers had been demanding for the past one month that the road be cleared of the debris, but to no avail. They were accompanied by mules, goats and sheep, he added. On the other hand, residents of Gaala and Jipti villages were stranded at Tawaghat as the Tawaghat to Garvadhar road was closed at Byaldhar for widening work being carried out by Border Roads Organisation (BRO) engineers. “More than 100 villagers, along with 200 mules and hundreds of sheep, returning to their native villages are stranded due to the blockade of the road. The road is yet to be cleared,” said Rokaya. He informed the District Magistrate today that a bridge near Dar village, where thousands of villagers were camping in the hope that the road would be cleared of the debris, were also worried as the bridge near Salladhand village on the route to Darma had washed away in rain last month. “PWD engineers say they have no money to construct a new bridge to replace the damaged one. Until the administration finds a new route, the villagers cannot return to their villages at the right time to sow summer crops,” he said. The District Magistrate said after receiving complaints from the villagers he had instructed the PWD officials to speed up the work of removing the debris from the road. “The process of removing the debris from the road will take time as the PWD Department has been instructed not to use excessive quantity of dynamite in the fragile hill area,” he said. |
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Crime control, traffic management top priority: SSP
Haridwar, April 21 Joshi, the youngest police chief of Haridwar since the formation of Uttarakhand state in 2000, said crime control and traffic management in the district were his top priority. He had earlier been SP, Pauri Garhwal and Uttarkashi. Joshi said he was assessing criminal activities of the past few months to draw a strategy to check their recurrence. He added as bordering Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur and Bijnore districts of Uttar Pradesh were crime prone, criminals commit crimes in Haridwar and escape to these districts. Border patrolling and barricade checking at the entry and exit points to Uttar Pradesh needed to be marked. Regarding traffic congestion on the inner city roads and the national highway passing through the city, the SSP said the priority would be to ensure that the local people faced minimum inconvenience during the yatra of Kanwarias or other religious occasions. “We are chalking out a traffic plan which will ensure a smooth flow of traffic and movement of people during festivals and other religious occasions. It will also ensure that the local residents face minimum inconvenience due to inflow of devotees on such occasions,” said Joshi. The SSP said it was also necessary to ensure a smooth flow of traffic as the Char Dham yatra to the Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri shrines was starting on April 24. He added as the summer had already set in, the police should be prepared for the increase in the rush of pilgrims in the next few weeks. He emphasised on better coordination between the traffic and civil police as well with other related departments for the successful completion of the Char Dham yatra. |
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CM, Arya to honour Congress workers today
Dehradun, April 21 “Now party workers will be honoured by Bahuguna and Yashpal Arya at a function here tomorrow,” Saraswat said. He said party MPs from the state had also been invited to the function. To a query, Saraswat denied any factionalism in the party. He said they had all respect for Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Harish
Rawat. “Harish Rawat is our senior leader and there is no question of showing disrespect towards him,” he said. |
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Plastic surgeons from US meet CM
Dehradun, April 21 Talking to the surgeons, who represent the Resurge International, the CM said the government would organise similar camps in the remote areas of the state. He also presented citation letters to Dr Eric and his team on the occasion. Jaikrishna, country director, Resurge International, said the organisation had organised medical camps across the country recently, wherein patients with burn injuries and deformation were treated through
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Rural youth to be trained in disaster management
Dehradun, April 21 Acting Director, Disaster Management, Dr Piyush Rautela stated that the department would start a 10-day course in basic medical treatment for officials of various departments.
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Thrashing of DAV College teacher flayed
Dehradun, April 21 Govind Ram was thrashed by students on the charge that he had sent a vulgar SMS to the student. The matter was later handed over to the police by the college authorities. Lekhraj said action should be taken against the students who beat up the teacher and a probe be conducted to know the truth. He further said if
the teacher was found guilty, he should also be punished. The SFI has also demanded the setting up of a gender sentisising committee in the college. |
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3,235 bags of soft stones seized
Pithoragarh, April 21 The officials found that the miners had shifted from the place allotted to them under lease to mine soft stones and had been carrying out quarrying on the land belonging to villagers. “On finding the violation of law, we seized 400 bags from the Kiroli soap stone mines of NS Corporation, 200 bags from Surkali soap stone of Katiyar mines, 220 bags from Sirala soap stone and 2,415 bags from Thanaizar, Shikhar and Udiyar mines,” said the mining officer. |
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