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Doctors, teachers oppose biometric attendance plan
Students' union elections at DAV college on Sept 10
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SFI announces candidates
Sanitary workers gherao MC official
Health Dept sounds alert for H1N1
UPCL is now in position of selling power to other states
Expedite pending works without delay, Joshi tells officials
No FIR registered even one month after theft at temple
Upadhyaya elected Ramlila panel chief
Subroto Cup 2012
KV (Birpur) win football meet
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Doctors, teachers oppose biometric attendance plan
Dehradun, August 31 While the biometric cards to BPL and APL beneficiaries under the government’s cheap foodgrain scheme may be effective in streamlining Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS), critics say it may not be effective for curbing absenteeism among teachers and doctors. Experts say technology can only act as an enabling agent and cannot be a substitute for human intervention. “Biometric cards may just about manage to give information about the presence of teachers in schools, it cannot improve the quality of education. “In Uttarakhand, the teachers while present in schools have been found engaged in other activities which may not be related to teaching. Technology cannot help at the lowest level, besides it also puts a question mark on the leadership qualities of the principal,” said RK Kunwar, Additional State Project Director, Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan. He said the inspection teams that were part of the state education system had been disbanded. “They were able to keep an eye not only on the presence of teachers and the quality of teaching but also took stock of the condition of the schools. It would be a better option to revive it,” said Kunwar. Equally both government and contractual doctors are questioning the proposal of biometric attendance put forward by Principal Secretary Health Dr Ranbir Singh. “While biometric cards can help contain absenteeism, but it is uncertain how, by the mere presence of doctors, the functioning of hospitals could improve. They have to be sufficiently motivated to discharge their duties,” said Dr BC Ramola, President, Provincial Medical and Health Services (PMHS Uttarakhand). Experts in the IT Department say the systems may fail in the hills where there is hardly any regular power supply. Regular monitoring at the level of the Chief Medical Officer through conferencing with doctors and listening to their problems could to a certain extent improve the functioning of the medical staff.
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Students' union elections at DAV college on Sept 10
Dehradun, August 31 Addressing a press conference today, the Principal of the college, Dr Devendra Bhasin, today said the students’ union election in the college would be held in accordance with the Lyngodoh Committee recommendations on electoral reforms in colleges and universities. Dr Bhasin said only those students in the age group of 17-25 years would be allowed to vote. He also held that adequate security arrangements were being undertaken to ensure a peaceful elections. Chief election officer of the college, Dr Anil Kant Sinha said nominations for the students’ union elections would take place on September 3 and 4. He said the withdrawal of candidature will be allowed on September 6 while the polling would take place on September 10. He said the counting would take place on September 11 followed by announcement of results on the same day. Sinha said in order to ensure that age criterion was strictly followed while filing of the candidature, the candidates had been asked to bring their matriculation certificates along with the college identity card and college admission fee receipt. He said a grievance committee had also been set up to redress election related complaints.
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SFI announces candidates
Dehradun, August 31 At a convention here today, the SFI announced the name of Devendra Singh for the post of vice-president at DAV (PG) College and Himanshu Dobhal SGRR (PG) College. — TNS
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Sanitary workers gherao MC official
Dehradun, August 31 They were led by state president Bhagwat Singh Makwana and city president Somu Selwan. The association is demanding the regularisation of the services of sanitary workers, the facility of the Assured Career Programme, gratuity, provident fund, timely payment of salaries and other allowances. The association also protested against the proposed move to remove the dependents of the deceased employees working in the DMC at present. They also demanded land to build houses for sanitary workers. The association members demanded that there should be an insurance policy for sanitary workers who work under unfavourable conditions at a trenching ground or on roads. According to sources, many retired employees of the corporation were yet to get payment due after the retirement. Mukhya Nagar Adhikari Ashok Kumar gave an assurance to the association members that he would look into their demands and fulfil the genuine ones on a priority basis.
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Health Dept sounds alert for H1N1
Dehradun, August 31 “I have asked the hospitals to make sure necessary injections and syrups are ready. Schools have especially been sounded to be on aler,” said Arya. He said hospitals had also been asked to make preparation for setting up isolation wards to tackle any eventuality. However, no case has been detected in the state.
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UPCL is now in position of selling power to other states
Dehradun, August 31 The corporation which had bought power for Rs 900 crore in the last four months to meet the acute power crisis in the state has now begun thinking in terms of selling power. Such is the level of excitement that Director, Operations, UPCL, Anil Kumar, said :" The use of power gadgets such as AC and coolers by consumers has slightly decreased in the rainy season. Besides, hydropower generation, too, has improved significantly. The Centre's share, too, has increased. All these factors favoured us in totality. It was a day before that we had 1.5 million units surplus, which is startling.The surplus power will now be sold by the UPCL. " The total power availability on Thursday remained 33.3 MUs with power generation shooting up to 19 MUs, whereas the gross power demand had been 32 MUs. The difference left the UPCL with surplus 1.5 MUs. On Wednesday, the corporation had 0.4 MUs surplus and now the figure is on the rise. The trend of giving surplus power to other states in the rainy season and getting it back during its lean season in winters with 5 per cent extra had been working well for the UPCL for the past many years. But this year around, the pattern got derailed due to rain-triggered disaster, which damaged the Maneri Bhali I and affected Maneri Bhali II as well. Both the hydropower houses contribute almost 7 MUs every day, which makes an enormous difference. The crisis was further deepened after the Northern Grid imposed restrictions on arbitrary power withdrawal from it when the whole Northern Grid had collapsed.
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Expedite pending works without delay, Joshi tells officials
Mussoorie, August 31 He visited the family members of those whose houses were gutted in a fire a few days back and assured complete support financially or otherwise as a relief measure. Joshi also paid a visit to the Tehri bus stand area and inspected the condition of the hand pump that has been rendered useless for the past several years. He summoned the officials and directed them to fix the hand pump as many poor families were dependant for water on it. He also directed MDDA officials to begin the construction work of two lavatories, one on
Kingcraig-Library road, and the other on Kingcraig-Picture Palace road. Joshi inspected the Tehri bypass road and found that one electric pole was on the verge of collapse. He directed the concerned officials to replace the pole immediately.
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No FIR registered even one month after theft at temple
Dehradun, August 31 Members of the Sai Astha Dham Samiti met Deputy Inspector General, Dehradun, Sanjay Gunjiyal, today to complain about. Only then the FIR could be registered. All the silver items, a chatar (cover over the head of Lord Sai Baba statue), two silver plates and a prayer stand were stolen on July 22. Spokesperson of the samiti, Sidharth Kumar, said: " The silver items worth Rs 6 lakh were stolen from the store room of the temple. The temple caretakers would remove these things and keep them in the store room at night for safety. But on the morning on July 22, these things were found missing. We brought the theft to the notice of the Station Officer and Inspector of Patel Nagar. They sent police personnel and forensic experts to the temple but did not lodge the FIR. It had been more than one month since then, they neither lodged the FIR nor solved the case." When the matter was brought before Gunjiyal in the morning, he got furious and called up the Station Officer to register the FIR before 2 pm or wait for the suspension order. It was then that the FIR was written in the case. Gunjiyal also assured the samiti members that the culprits would be arrested as soon as possible. With delay in following up the case, it will now be difficult to recover the stolen items because usually the culprits melt gold/silver swiftly and sell it to jewellers. The police cracked the Sai Temple case of Sahastradhara quickly. It successfully managed to recover all the stolen silver items.
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Upadhyaya elected Ramlila panel chief
Haridwar, August 31 Other elected office-bearers are: working president--Neeraj Aggarwal; patron--AK Gupta; senior vice-president--KPS Solanki, vice-president--Brijesh Kumar; and treasurer-- Maynpal Singh. Ram Kumar, Devendra Patel, Mahendra Patel, Avdesh Kumar, Anand Kumar, Duleep Sarkar, MP Vaishya, Gaurav Ojha, Sambha Kumar and Akhilesh Kumar were present on the occasion. Before the election, Himanshu Dwivedi presented the annual income and expenditure statement of the committee. A Ganesh vandana was performed and later rehearsals for the upcoming ramleela were started.
—TNS
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Doon Star drub DMK Club
Dehradun, August 31 Abhinav scored 2 goals whereas Dheeraj, Shera and Balwant scored 1 goal each for the Doon Star team. In the second match, the contest between Akranta and Yamuna Club ended in a draw with both teams scoring one goal each. Shambu scored the goal for Akranta while Bobby Thapa scored the sole goal for the Yamuna Club team.
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Uttarakhand team faces discrimination
Tribune News Service
Dehradun, August 31 The Uttarakhand junior team is placed in a tough group with a tight schedule. This year, 34 teams will play in the junior section of the Subroto Cup in Delhi starting from 18 September 2012. The state is in group 7 with the Army Boys, Uttar Pradesh, Bangladesh and Afghanistan teams. Uttarakhand is the only team in this group which will play four matches back-to-back. The Subroto Cup organisers have provided at least one day rest to all other teams of the group 7. The Uttarakhand junior team will play its first match against Army Boys on September 23, second against UP on September 24, third against Bangladesh on September 25 and last against Afghanistan on September 26. Nilesh Rana, web administrator of dehradunfootball.com, says, "Uttarakhand was discriminated by providing no-rest day. Army Boys, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will get two days of rest in their four-match schedule of the group and Uttar Pradesh will get one. Football lovers in the state are shocked over the treatment of the junior team."
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Northern-West Frontier declared champions in karate
Mussoorie, August 31 Around 96 participants from five frontiers of the ITBP force participated in the competition that is held on an annual basis here. The jawan from North West Frontier, Tam Tapak, was adjudged the best karate champion and was presented with the black belt 2012 on the occasion. The karate participants also demonstrated karate skills in front of the gathered audience that was much appreciated. The Eastern Frontier and Western Frontier were declared second and third, respectively, in the competition. The director of the ITBP academy, Harbhajan Singh, distributed the citations and awards on the occasion. Addressing the jawans he said that karate was the best form of self-defence and played a valuable role in the life of jawans during combat. He also said that ITBP was the front-runner in the sport and had garnered a number of medals in the national and international events in the past and will continue the good work in the future, too.
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KV (Birpur) win football meet
Dehradun, August 31 Amit Asthana, an official of the Forest Research Institute, gave away the prizes to the winners. Principal, KV (FRI), Charu Sharma coordinated the prize distribution ceremony.
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To check absenteeism and improve the functioning of schools and health facilities in the state, the government’s proposed plan to issue biometric cards has not found favour with doctors and teachers and questions are also being raised about the effectiveness of the project.
The schedule for the students’ union election for DAV (PG) College was announced today with polling slated to take place on September 10.
It is for the first time in the entire period of summer and rainy season that the Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) is not doing load shedding in the state today. The power generation has improved exceedingly with the Maneri Bhali-1 (65 MW) hydropower house, which was closed down since August 2, becoming operational, and Maneri Bhali II (265 MW) also giving full performance with all it's six turbines working. The power generation which had plummeted to 10 to 12 MUs has exceeded to 19 MUs per day. The Centre share of power giving, too, has jumped from 12 MUs to almost 15 MUs.