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Rally in support of keeping Mussoorie clean and green
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Cong activists hold protest against Ramdev
Two pilgrims dead, four missing as car falls into river
Sanstha to take care of saplings on Tapovan Road
Safety Railway Ministry's main focus: CPO
Raise Haj quota: Rawat
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Rally in support of keeping Mussoorie clean and green
Mussoorie, June 2 Mussoorie Municipal Council president OP Uniyal flagged off the rally at Appu Ghar, where a large number of students from different parts of the district had assembled with campaigning materials on environment protection. The rally organsied under the aegis of Winterline Communication went through Kulri Bazaar, Jhoola Ghar, Mall Road and culminated at Library Bazaar. The students from Woodstock, Tibetan Homes Foundations, St.Lawrence School and Mussoorie Public School also collected several tonness of plastic strewn on Mall Road in order to create awareness towards banning plastic from the town completely. The Woodstock students who were part of the rally said that the objective of the rally was to create awareness towards global warming and fragile environment and persuade people to stay away from use of plastic carry bags. Municipal Council president Uniyal commended the effort of the organisers and said that Municipal Council would support any such effort of the people in future too. The exhibition showcasing the pictures of the plantation work done by members of the 127th Infantry Eco-Task Force was also held here. The eco-task force members informed the invited guests about ways to increase green cover around their area. Later in the evening a musical show was also organised in which bands such as Corsair, Shadow, Rudranath and Wrappers performed. Monty, the lead vocalist from the Band Corsair, said that they were performing free of cost in support of the noble cause of creating awareness towards global warming and conserving environment. The classical sitar player, Agni Verma, also enchanted the audience on the occasion. The rally was supported by many social organisations of the town.
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Jairam Ramesh promises speedy clearance of state road projects
Dehradun, June 2 At a press conference today, the union minister said he would personally take up the matter of speedy clearance of road projects with his government in the Cabinet. “Uttarakhand should link the remaining roads out of the sanctioned 1025 by the Central Government under PMGSY in the coming four years. In the last 12 years, the speed has been slow and only 650 habitations had been connected with roads. I know the clearance from Forest Department is posing a huge problem. I will take up the matter of simplification of the process like it is being done in the Naxal-infested areas with my government,”
he said. He also pointed out that around 70 projects under PMGSY that had received forest clearance during the previous government’s rule were not completed because the contractors
ran away. “I think the manpower problem too needs to be looked into,” he said. Urging the government to take up the project of providing toilets to all families under the Nirmal Gram Yojana, he said the Central Government had increased the finance for construction of one toilet per family from Rs 4000 to Rs 10,000. “There are a total of 7,555 gram panchayats in the state and only 525 have been declared Nirmal Gram Panchayats.The government needs to complete the task of becoming a 'nirmal rajya' in the next four years,” he said. Union Minister Ramesh, describing the MNREGA importance for checking migration from hill areas, said that 30 more works had been added in it.
Union Minister said that Rs 160 crore had been allocated for drinking water projects to Uttarakhand
for 2012-13. Besides, the minister said he would also look into the matter of increasing the Central and state government funding in the ratio of 90:10 as is being done in the North-Eastern states. The minister also said
as the women of Uttarakhand had been in the forefront of several environment movements,
he expected to bring around 25 lakh women under the self help groups. When the union minister was urged to connect van panchayats to MNREGA, he stressed on attaching them to gram panchayats first and said the suggestion had come from
the forest officials who want van panchayats to be consolidated with the gram panchayats for better up-keep of water resources that fall in the forest areas.
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Cong activists hold protest against Ramdev
Haridwar, June 2 Chief of the city unit of the party OP Chauhan said a protest march would be organised against Ramdev’s agitation at Jantar Mantar tomorrow, as he had failed to come clean on allegations and notices served on him and his eight trusts. The march would be carried out under the aegis of the Congress Sewa Dal. It would begin from Desh Rakshak tri-intersection and after passing through Singh Dwar, Arya Nagar, Shankar Ashram, Chandra Charya chowk, Ranipur, Rishikul, Devpura, Tulsi chowk, Shiv Moorti chowk and bus stand, it would culminate at the City Magistrate's Office. A memorandum would also be forwarded to the Union Home Minister, demanding a high-level probe into the financial assets of various trusts being run by Patanjali Yogpeeth. Accusing Ramdev of adopting double standards, party leader Sanjay Chopra said on the one hand, he was staging a nationwide agitation on the black money issue, on the other hand, he had himself failed to disclose his assets publicly. He said several notices had been issued to Ramdev by the Income Tax Department and the Enforcement Department regarding his financial assets, but he had not replied to any of them so far. Meanwhile, in support of Ramdev’s agitation, activists of the Bharat Swabhiman Trust took out a motor bike procession raising slogans against corruption and black money. Trust in charge, Uttarakhand, Mohan Yogi the UPA government could not ignore the corruption and black money issues and should bring back to India black money stashed away in
foreign banks.
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Two pilgrims dead, four missing as car falls into river
Dehradun, June 2 According to Disaster Management and Mitigation Centre sources, the car was on way to Rishikesh from Sikh Shrine of Hemkund Sahib when the driver lost control over the steering at Helang near Joshimath on the Rishikesh-Badrinath highway at around 8 am. The vehicle straightway fell into Alaknanda river. While 2 pilgrims' bodies have been recovered, 4 others are reported missing and could have been swept away in the river. There were a total of 6 persons
in the car. Even the remains of the Innova car could not be recovered by the rescue team due to the
swirling waters of the Alaknanda. Meanwhile, Governor Aziz Qureshi has expressed grief over the accident. He has prayed for the peace of the souls of the deceased and for
the speedy recovery of the injured.
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Sanstha to take care of saplings on Tapovan Road
Dehradun, June 2 In a statement issued here today, president of the sanstha Mohan Singh Chauhan said the saplings had started withering in the scorching heat. He said members of the sanstha had now decided to water these saplings so as to prevent them from drying up. Chauhan said the sanstha would also launch a cleanliness drive in Ladpur and Sunderwala gram panchayats of Raipur on World Environment Day.
— TNS
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face of the week
Dehradun, June 2 He started planting trees 60 years ago at his native Pujargaon in memory of his wife whom he lost to tuberculosis. His brother, Nagendra Dutt Saklani, a veteran communist leader, played a stellar role in the merger of the erstwhile Tehri state into the Indian Union. Nagendra rose in revolt against the Tehri ruler and tried to capture the tehsil office at Kirtinagar on January 12, 1948, and was killed by troops of the Maharaja along with Molu Ram Nautiyal. Moved by their martyrdom, the people of Tehri rose in revolt against the ruler that finally led to the merger of the Tehri state with the Indian Union. As a part of his commitment to the environment and of course in memory of his brother, Saklani raised 70 nurseries and planted more than 50 lakh saplings, turning an area of 120 hectares in Pujargoan into a lush green forest. He, thus, named
this forest ‘Nagendra Dutt Saklani Van’. In 1986, he was awarded Indira Priyadarshani Award for his efforts to protect environment by the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Since then, he has received many awards both at national and international levels. Very few know that Saklani was given the name of Vriksha Manav at Shivanand Ashram Rishikesh in 1986 by then then Ashram Head Swami Chidanand. Saklani firmly believes that every Indian must at least plant one sapling on the occasion of birth, marriage or even a death in his family. He said it was important to save the environment.
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Safety Railway Ministry's main focus: CPO
Mussoorie, June 2 He said the ministry had taken several measures to ensure safe journey and much was planned through a safety fund available to the Railways in this budget. He further said the Railways focus was on improving and upgrading the basic amenities at the platforms and several measures were being taken in this regard. Speaking on the progress of the Rishikesh-Karnprayag railway line, he said it was a very big project. He said the work was in progress under the Railway Vikas Nigam, which was looking after the
project.
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Raise Haj quota: Rawat
Dehradun, June 2 In a letter written to the Prime Minister, Rawat said at present the Haj quota for the state was just 788 which was less taking into account the number of applications being submitted for Haj. He appealed to the Prime Minister to direct the Union Ministry of External Affairs for increasing the quota to at least 1000.
— TNS
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