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Champawat, Pithoragarh districts cry for water
Route to Kailash Mansarovar to be ready by May 25
Qureshi to take oath as Governor on May 15
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Heaps of garbage dot Haridwar
Carcass of leopard found
Probe ordered into transformer fire incident
Plays on Manto’s stories staged
Seminar on value system in Army held
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Champawat, Pithoragarh districts cry for water
Pithoragarh, May 8 "The villagers of Jajar Deval have been facing water crisis for the past two years after a pipeline, which fed the village, was damaged," said Basant Kumar Joshi, a student leader who led the delegation to the office of the District Magistrate. "We have warned the administration that if the water supply to our village will not be restored, the villagers will block the highway to Dharchula," said Joshi. People of Champawat and Lohaghat towns are also angry as they get water on every fourth day. "As all natural water sources have gone dry due to summer, we are not in a position to supply water on a daily basis to all localities of Lohaghat," said a Jal Sansthan official. According to Jal Santhan officials, Lohaghat needs 1.63 mld water daily but the supply is closed to only .33 mld due to drying of natural sources, on which the drinking water schemes of the town are based. Residents of Goralchaur and Khark karki localities in Champawat today staged a dharna before the Jal sansthan office and demanded a regular water supply. "We have only 0.57 mld water daily to supply to the residents instead of the demand of 1.1 mld in the town as most of the schemes have reduced to 80 of their water generation," said PC Kukreti, Executive Engineer of the Champawat Jal Sansthan. According to Jal Sansthan officials, Schemes costing Rs 45 crore have been prepared for the district as 330 drinking water sources in villages have gone almost dried. "Besides these, 106 drinking water schemes in the district are supplying water on half of their capacity and most of 18 handpumps installed in the district have gone dry," said they. In the Chand colony area of Tanakpur town of Champawat district, women today submitted a memorandum to Jal Sansthan officials and demanded sufficient water supply from them. "We have given the officials a week for restoring the water supply in these colonies or we will gherao the sansthan," said Pushpa Bhatt, a counci'lor in Tanakpur Nagar Palika Parishad. |
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Route to Kailash Mansarovar to be ready by May 25
Pithoragarh, May 8 The first meeting for the yatra was also attended by officers of the district administration, representatives of the KMVN, the ITBP, the police, the BSNL and the BRO. The District Magistrate said the yatra would be conducted in 16 batches and after beginning on June 1 it would complete on September 25. The SDM, Dharchula, Dr Abhishek Tripathi would keep an eye on the condition of the yatra track and visit sites, if needed, said the District Magistrate. According to the programme of the Kailash Mansarovar yatra for this year, the pilgrims would reach Almora from new Delhi on the first day and on the second day the pilgrims in batches would reach Chaukori via Kausani. From there, they would reach the base camp at Dharchula on the third day of the pilgrimage. From the Dharchula base camp the pilgrims would reach the Sirkha camp on the fourth day and would stay at the Sirkha, Gala Bundi and Gunji camps for the next four days. At the Gunji camp the pilgrims would undergo the last medical check up to be done by ITBP doctors. After camping at Gunji for a night, the pilgrims would reach Nabhidhang, the last camp of the yatra. From there the pilgrims would cross into Tibet from 17,500 feet high Lipulekh Pass the next day and remain there for the next 12 days. “We have scrapped one-day additional stay at Gunji and also at the Kalapani camp as due to the construction of a road in the area the travel from Gunji to Nabhidhang has become a day journey,” said DK Sharma, manager, tourism, at the Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam, the nodal agency for this yatra. The District Magistrate said to keep communication facilities intact during the yatra, the BSNL would provide five satellite mobile sets to the KMVN and the same number of sets to the ITBP and villages on the yatra route. The police would install a wireless control room at the Dharchula base camp, besides providing satellite sets to all policemen on security duty for the yatra, said AS Takwale, SP, Pithoragarh. The services of 18 doctors and the same number of pharmacists would be made available to the pilgrims during the yatra this year, said the Chief Medical Officer, Pithoragarh, SC Pant. The district magistrate had also instructed the Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam to ensure that the pilgrims were provided with fresh and delicious food of their choice during the
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Qureshi to take oath as Governor on May 15
Dehradun, May 8 Aziz Qureshi is expected to arrive in Dehradun on May 14. After landing at Jolly Grant Airport, he will be given the Guard of Honour by PAC jawans. The Chief Minister or any Cabinet Minister nominated by him on his behalf, the Chief Secretary, the DGP and other senior officers will be present to welcome the designated Governor. Aziz Qureshi will reach GTC helipad by helicopter. There he will be welcomed by public representatives, mandal Commissioners, the DIG and other senior officers. He will be given the Guard of Honour by Army jawans at Raj Bhawan. After taking the oath, the Governor will address mediapersons. The Chief Secretary also directed the officers to make requisite arrangements for the welcome of Chief Justice Barin Ghosh. The meeting was attended by DGP Vijay Raghav Pant, Principal Secretary, Industry, Rakesh Sharma, Principal Secretary, Legislation, DP Gairola, Principal Secretary to the Governor Ashok Pai, Secretary to the Chief Minister MH Khan, Secretary, General Administration, Ajay Nabiyal, DG Information Dilip Jawalkar, Additional Secretary SS Rawat, IG Ram Singh Meena, DIG Sanjay Gujiyal, DM, Dehradun, Ravinath Raman and SSP Neeru Garg. |
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Make PDS corruption-free, demands UPP
Nainital, May 8 Members of the UPP held a demonstration on the issue in Almora today and submitted a memorandum to the office of Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna through District Magistrate Akshat Gupta. The members of the party held a demonstration on the Collectorate premises and raised slogans against the anti-people policies of the Centre and the state government. Addressing the party cadres, president of the UPP PC Tewari said the governments while following their policy of liberalisation and market-oriented economy were deliberately weakening the PDS in a planned manner. He said while the agriculture in the hill areas of the state had been destroyed, the people were facing a hard time as there were not adequate food grains available at the PDS outlets. He claimed that this had compelled his party to come forward and agitate on the issue. Several senior leaders of the party, including Govind Lal Verma, Alka Pant, Ajay Tewari and Bhawna Mankoti addressed the party workers before the memorandum was submitted. District Supplies Officer DR Raj, while explaining the functioning of his department, promised to take steps to strengthen the PDS. Gupta also promised action on the issue raised by the party. The UPP, in its memorandum, has demanded that the essential commodities be provided in ample quantity under the PDS to those falling in the BPL category. It has been demanded that the shortage of food grains and kerosene be addressed at the earliest and the goods be given to the cardholders on unit basis. |
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Ganga Sabha calls off stir after CM’s assurance
Haridwar, May 8 Bahuguna conveyed to the Ganga Sabha delegation that the state government had no intention to bring any law to interfere in the day-to-day affairs of Har-ki-Pauri. General secretary of the Ganga Sabha, the sole managing authority of Har-ki-Pauri,Virendra Shree Kunj stated that Vijay Bahuguna said no such procedure was in drafting regarding the controlling of the Har-ki-Pauri affairs or reining in the Ganga Sabha. Shree Kunj added Bahuguna even expressed satisfaction over the working of the Ganga Sabha and advised the delegation to be in touch with the Cultural Secretary regarding this issue. He also assured them of looking into any such step taken by the previous BJP government. Bal Braham Swaroop Brahamchari said he was in touch with the Chief Minister's office regarding shrine Act proposals. Expressing happiness over the assurance, Akhil Bharatiya Yuva Teerth Purohit chief Ujjwal Pundit said for almost a century, proceedings and affairs of Braham Kund, Har-ki-Pauri are being carried out by the sole managing authority Ganga Sabha as per agreement between the British government and the Ganga Sabha in 1916. |
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Heaps of garbage dot Haridwar
Haridwar, May 8 The tall claims made by the state government and the administration with regard to cleanliness, sanitation and health aspect during the ongoing Char Dham pilgrimage seems to be falling flat. A majority of the city area is in pathetic condition as filth, garbage, sewer waste and left-over food material is lying unattended. With heat wave intensifying, the woes of local residents, pilgirims and tourist are aggravating as the fear of contagious diseases is looming large with already more than a 12 cases of malaria being diagnosed in the past few days. Even the mela zone, Har-ki-Pauri, Rodi Belwala, Lal ji wala , Upper Road, Ganga ghats, Ranipur and sub-urban Jwalapur present a bad picture with heaps of garbage lying everywhere. Furthermore, the regular strike by class IV employees of the Municipal Corporation and its lackadaisical working paves way for only verbal claims by the officials concerned but on ground-level, city wears an unhygienic look. The influx of pilgrims is increasing but the Municipal Corporation and the district administration is not taking a serious note of this aspect. Even the much-publicised ‘Clean-Green Zone’ drive that was commenced two months ago seems to be of no use as the areas earmarked under this drive are also not being cleaned properly. City Health Officer Dr Anil Tyagi, said owing to lakhs of people thronging the city in the past few days, it was not possible for the employees to dispose of the garbage. He added that additional number of sanitation employees, inculding contractual, had been put on duty. The city was expected to bear a clean look in the coming days, he opined. Former municipal committee chairperson Kamal Johra expressed shock over the sanitation conditions prevailing in the city. |
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Students pay tribute to Darwin
Haridwar, May 8 Darwin’s early life, education, achievements, his scientific theories and impact was beautifully depicted by the students. The students also depicted phrases from Darwin’s famous books ‘On the Origin of Species’ and The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals’ and his researches on the scientific evolution of life and nature. Coordinator of the National Child Science Congress Subash Chand Sharma said the purpose of the play was to apprise younger generation of the contribution and impact of Darwin, who is regarded as the pioneer of theory of evolution and transformed the way people thought about the natural world earlier through his works. Hema Pant, a student, who essayed the role of Darwin’s wife Emma said while rehearsing for the presentation, she got to know a lot about Darwin. A lecture was also delivered on the Darwin’s theory of evolution by experts. Prof PP Pathak appreciated the UCOST for organising the programme.
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Carcass of leopard found
At the first sight it seemed that the leopard died after falling from a hilltop, but the poachers’ hand in the incident could not be ruled out,” said Mahipal Singh Sirohi, Assistant Conservator of Forest, Pithoragarh division. “After the recovery of the carcass, we have instructed all range officers to keep a vigil at water bodies and village inhabitations as poachers can be active at these places to kill carnivores for bones and skin, which are smuggled to Tibet via Nepal,” said Sirohi. He added nearly six such incidents had come to their notice in this forest division and the bodies of leopards had been recovered by forest officers. “After a post-mortem, all carcasses were burnt by the officials,” said the forest officer. |
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Probe ordered into transformer fire incident
Nainital, May 8 District Magistrate, Nainital, Nidhi Mani Tripathi ordered the City Magistrate, Haldwani, Prakash Chandra to conduct the probe and submit a report to her within a fortnight. Tripathi ordered officials of the Power Department to provide technical assistance in the probe. It took personnel of the Fire Department more than two hours to control the fire that damaged a cable marshalling box, bushings, breakers and other technical equipment. The fire had started with a blast around 9 pm on May 4. As a preventive measure, the authorities had switched off power supply to the entire hill area. The supply could only be resumed around 2 am. |
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Plays on Manto’s stories staged
Nainital, May 8 The presentation brought out the real face of the film industry in the1940s. Full of humour, it portrayed what goes behind the scenes while the film is being shot. Another interesting presentation of the day was by Sanjay Kumar, who portrayed the powerful work of Manto’s ‘Taraqi Yafta Kabrastan’ in which the writer had lampooned the forces that had made the exercise of the burial of a deceased a commercial venture. The work shows how everything from digging of graves to bathing the body and even the burial came for a
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Seminar on value system in Army held
Dehradun, May 8 The seminar was aimed at identifying vulnerabilities and threats due to a drastic decline in the ethics and value system in the society which is a major cause for concern as it can affect the military leadership and operational preparedness in the Army. |
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