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Long power cuts make life miserable for Doon residents
CM allocates portfolios to Harak Singh Rawat
Development works in all 60 wards get stalled
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Hydropower projects on Ganga unaccepatable, says saint
Major robbery case solved; 4 arrested
Mussoorie swimmers excel in state level c’ship
A winner of the state-level swimming championship receives a citation and an award in Haldwani on Tuesday
Bhawana Jaiswal’s photo exhibition inaugurated
PFA raids cattle market; case registered
Abhimanyu academy win
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Long power cuts make life miserable for Doon residents
The real culprit behind this sudden precarious power situation is said to be drastic low output in the power generation. Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam (UJVNL), which generated 20 MU to 18 MU every day between June 1 and 6, is receiving plummeted generation from June 7 onwards, which came to as low as 12 MU on June 11. This tapering graph of generation shows the poor state of the entire power scenario in
Uttarakhand. UPCL did no banking with any other state out of it's confidence that the power generation which had started doing well in the early week of June will continue to do so till the monsoon got over. According to sources, the reason considered for low power generation is the climate change in higher reaches, as the cloudy weather has slowed down the pace of snow melting. The demand for power has undoubtedly shot up with the heat at it's worst and rain dodging the state. Clouds did appear but for a short while during the last few days. The usage of electrical gadgets for relief from heat has taken up the power demand from 32 to 34 MU. By including the state's share from Central sector generating stations, which too has fallen slightly from 12 MU to 10.9 MU, the gross availability comes around 24 MU along with 0.8 MU from Vishnu Prayag project. Extra power is being drawn, and it ranges between between 3 to 2 MU these days. Energy to the tune of 1.1 MU is being received from power purchase agreement with outside agencies as well. In a nutshell, emergency purchase of power due to low frequency is being done for 3 to 5 hours in the city. Beyond the official data, the residents in the city have been suffering longer cuts and that too at different intervals in the day as well night time. Officials blame tripping of power lines and faults in the transformers or substations for the stretched out shutdown. The official data also confirms shutdown for 8 hours in rural areas of Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar, steel furnaces; 9 hours in industries in Garhwal and Kumaon, which have not paid extra charges for continuous supply; 4 hours in small towns; and 3 hours in hills though Mussoorie, Kotdwar and Nainital have been kept out of power cuts. According to sources, the officials are waiting for the monsoons to arrive within a week, which they feel will solve all their problems as the power generation will increase and demand will also decrease side by side with the rains over
the state.
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CM allocates portfolios to Harak Singh Rawat
Dehradun, June 12 Addressing a press conference, Bahuguna announced that Harak Singh Rawat has been given the charge of Agriculture, Agriculture marketing, Agriculture Education, Medical Education and Ex-servicemen Welfare. Rawat was inducted as a minister in the state Congress government on June 9. Mantri Prasad Naithani was looking after the Agriculture and Agriculture Marketing while Surender Singh Negi was looking after the Ex-servicemen Welfare Department. The department of medical education was with the Chief Minister himself. Bahuguna also administered the oath of office to three Congress legislators, namely Vijay Pal Singh Sajwan, Ganesh Godiyal and Narayan Ram Arya as Parliamentary Secretaries. Sajwan comes from Uttarkashi district while Godiyal is from Pauri Garhwal and Narayan Ram Arya from Pithoragarh. These parliamentary secretaries will enjoy the rank of cabinet ministers. The Chief Minister also announced to appoint party legislator Kunwar Parnav Singh Champion as the Chairman of the Uttarakhand Forest Corporation and Sarvat Karim Ansari, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator from Mangalore in Haridwar district, as the chairman of the Uttarakhand Housing Board. Dinesh Dhanai, independent legislator representing Tehri Assembly segment, had been appointed the Chairman of the Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam.
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Development works in all 60 wards get stalled
Dehradun, June 12 The code of conduct has been enforced in the wake of the election due to which the board meeting of DMC, too, was not held today as was proposed earlier. Many important decisions were to be taken, especially the one related to house tax, where slum colonies were to be included and the norms of house tax were to be finalised. The monsoon is just around the corner but the works, which were to be wrapped up before the rainy season, have been put in abeyance. The tender process for the development projects has been held up. The tenders had been postponed for the last four months as the contractors refused to participate in the bidding process until their pending payment was made. They had been paid half of the amount of total Rs 2.50 crore, and Mukhya Nagar Adhikari Ashok Kumar has assured the rest as well. Now when the contractors were placated, the elections to these two wards, where ward 37 of Mata Mandir Road got vacant due to the sudden death of councillor Uday Chandel, and ward 38 of Race Course fell vacant when its councillor Ganesh Dangwal left it to join government service, have been announced all of a sudden. Councillor Sachin Patel said many roads in his ward, Yamuna Colony, required urgent repair which, if not done before monsoons, would pose serious problems for the commuters. He said his file in this regard had been gathering dust in the DMC as the tenders were not carried out in time, and now the work further got postponed due to enforcement of code of conduct, which, anyways was going to be operational till the first week of July when the rainy season would have started. He said if the DMC officials urged State Election Commission to permit the development tasks in regard of impending monsoons in all the wards except those two where elections are to be held, then a solution could be in sight.
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Hydropower projects on Ganga unaccepatable, says saint
Speaking at Madras Dharamshala, Birla ghat, the saint extended his support to the June 18 pro-Ganga movement at Jantar Mantar being staged by Shankaracharya of Dwarka-Jyotish Peeth Swaroopanand Saraswati Maharaj. He said due to prior commitments, he would not be able to attend the agitation, but he had full support to this movement. —
TNS
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Major robbery case solved; 4 arrested
Haridwar, June 12 These arrested were contractor Ram Chandra, resident of Alwar, Rajasthan, Zafar, resident Roshanabad, Shaukin, resident of Muzzafarnagar, Intezaar, resident of Muzzafarnagar, and Ajay Singh Yadav, resident of Rehmat Nagar,Lucknow. They had robbed Pauri resident Vinod Singh Bhandari of Rs 8.80 lakh from BHEL, Sector 4, on June 7. Informing media persons, Senior Superintendent of Police Arun Mohan Joshi said that Ram Chandra played a major role in this robbery by helping Vinod Bhandari in carrying out a property deal. Simultaneously, he informed his aides of the timing and place of delivering the cash to the property seller. Contractor Ram Chandra was interrogated by the police on suspicion that while accompanying Bhandari, he was not even touched by the robbers as he had at that time Rs 2.20 lakh cash. Succumbing to the detailed investigation, Ram Chandra revealed that two Pulsar bikes were used by them with Shaukin and Intezar waiting at Shivalik Nagar to rob Bhandari at gunpoint. He then later called the police and deliberately fell on the road to get hurt so as to escape any police suspicion. The has recovered a Pulsar bike and a pistol and cash worth Rs 6.26 lakh. One of the culprits Ajay Singh Yadav is still absconding, and various police teams have been sent to arrest him. One team has already reached Lucknow. Superintendent of City Police KL Shaw congratulated the police team comprising of SHO VD Uniyal,Chandrakar Naithani, Vipin Bahuguna, Kulendra Singh, Harpal Singh, Satendra and Narendra Singh, SOG in-charge. DG, Headquarters, has sanctioned Rs 20,000, DIG, Garhwal, Rs 5000, and SSP, Haridwar, Rs 2500 cash for the joint police teams that cracked this case.
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Mussoorie swimmers excel in state level c’ship
Mussoorie, June 12 Bhanu Pratap Singh of Wynberg-Allen School, Mussoorie, won a bronze in the 50-metre backstroke event in the sub-junior division. Mahindra Bora, Aastha Joshi, Kiran Dhapola, Abhisht Mehra and Suraj Singh Dhapola from Haldwani were declared the individual champions at the meet. Rajeev Mehta, president of the Uttarakhand Olympics Association, was the chief guest on the occasion. Deepa Mehta, president of the Uttarakhand Swimming Association, awarded medals and citations to the winners in the different categories. Twenty-six new records were set during the course of the championship in Haldwani. According to the organizers, the selection of the state team for participation in the forthcoming junior and sub-junior national championships would be made on the basis of their performance in this meet.
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Bhawana Jaiswal’s photo exhibition inaugurated
Dehradun, June 12 The exhibition included photographs of various forms of nature like wild life, flowers and landscape. Bhawana, who has been working as a photographer with Government Women’s Polytechnic College, Bhopal, since 2001 has been passionately pursuing photography for the past 27 years. “I had been photographing for several years and I thought I should take my creations to people. So I decided to organise 12 exhibitions in a year at different places and on different subjects,” she said. This was her sixth exhibition. Earlier, all her five exhibitions had received positive response from the people, friends and critiques. Bhawana has also been actively involved in short film making. She, who likes clicking everything she finds worth clicking, also gave tips on photography to young photo enthusiast who had come to visit exhibition. Also present on the occasion were photographers Neeraj Richhariya and Bhumesh Bharati.
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PFA raids cattle market; case registered
Dehradun, June 12 According to Gauri Maulekhi member-secretary, PFA, Uttarakhand, during the raid it was discovered that the contractor of the cattle market had obtained the contract from the zila panchayat and had been blatantly selling the cattle to butchers with no regard to the Uttarakhand Cow and it's Progeny Protection Act 2007. She disclosed that a case under Section 6 of the Uttarakhand Cow and it's Progeny Protection Act 2007 has been registered at the Landhora reporting chowki. She said the contractor and his munshi are absconding. She held that every week over 1,000 bulls get smuggled across the border through Landhora cattle market, which is at a distance of 10 km from the Uttarakhand-Uttar Pradesh border. "No veterinary examination is done and no permission of the district authorities is sought before such a sale. The bulls are stuffed into loading trucks and sent to slaughter houses situated in Bijnore and Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh," she pointed out.
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Abhimanyu academy win
Dehradun, June 12 The Abhimanyu academy, after winning the toss, decided to bat and amassed 214 runs for three wickets in 35 overs with the help of 82 runs by Opener Aryan. The Sports Trainees team was all out for 108 runs in 28.5 overs, losing the match by 106 runs. —TNS
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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna allocated portfolios to Harak Singh Rawat, the newly inducted minister in his ministry, and also administered the oath of office as Parliamentary secretaries to three legislators here today.
In a major success for the police, four persons involved in a major broad-daylight heist were arrested today by a special operations group team.
These arrested were contractor Ram Chandra, resident of Alwar, Rajasthan, Zafar, resident
Roshanabad, Shaukin, resident of Muzzafarnagar, Intezaar, resident of
Muzzafarnagar, and Ajay Singh Yadav, resident of Rehmat Nagar,Lucknow.
Swimmers from Mussoorie excelled in the boys section in the Third Uttarakhand State Swimming Championship that concluded in Haldwani recently.
Kartikeya Pratap Singh from St. George’s College, Mussoorie, brought laurels to the school and the town by winning one gold medal in the 50-metre butterfly and two bronze medals in the 50-metre freestyle and 100-metre breaststroke in the senior division.
Dehradun, June 12
Haridwar, June 12