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Govt removes nominated members of DPC
Subas Rauto to get national award on Teachers' Day
Book on Swami Vivekanand draws appreciation
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Taxi union members beat up jeep driver
Main accused in temple theft case arrested
Development not possible without private sector: Secy
A match in action during the Lala Nemi Dass Memorial District Football League in Dehradun on Monday.
Rainfall in state 12% below normal
Inter-school girls’ basketball tournament from today
Students of Mussoorie Girls’ Inter-College wait for their turn during song and dance competition in Mussoorie on Monday.
Camp for physically challenged today
Football tournament begins
Communist parties to hold protest on Sept 10
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Govt removes nominated members of DPC
Dehradun, September 3 Earlier, the meeting was postponed due to a row between MLAs and DPC members on July 23. Later, it was scheduled to be held in the last week of August. Dehradun has suffered the most with this decision as development projects in other districts have already been approved. The four nominated members who have been removed are Jyoti Singh Sajwan, a social worker, Anuj Kaushal, a member of the youth wing of the BJP, Amar Singh Chauhan, a BJP activist from Kalsi Block and Jaswinder Singh from the Dehradun Municipal Corporation. Chairperson of the Zila Panchayat Madhu Chauhan said: "Earlier, the DPC meeting was deferred as the new government was yet to settle down. It was again postponed for the second time as the model code of conduct was in force in the wake of the Sitarganj byelection. Later, it was again deferred due to a row between MLAs and the DPC. Now its fate again hangs in the balance with the removal of the nominated members." She said other members of the DPC would take a legal opinion if the nominated members, who had already placed their proposals during the last meeting that was only postponed and not cancelled, could attend the next meeting. However, District Magistrate Ravinath Raman made it clear that the nominated members who had been removed would not be allowed to attend the meeting. The DM said he would consult the Chairperson of the DPC whether the meeting could take place without the presence of the new nominated members, provided the quorum of the meeting got completed. Meanwhile, Jyoti Singh Sajwan has lodged a protest over the timing of their removal. He said: "The MLAs who tried to get their projects cleared at the last meeting felt humiliated when nominated members silenced them with their arguments pertaining to the DPC Act. Out of vendetta, they have made the state government pass an order with regard to the removal of nominated members of the DPC at the stage when the projects were about to be cleared. The order could have been passed after the DPC meeting for Dehradun, as in the rest of the districts, all projects have been approved." He said all nominated members who had been removed would meet the Secretary, Panchayati Raj, to seek permission to attend the meeting. The nominated members, however, are drawing a solace from the fact that the majority in the 37-member DPC lies with BJP members. Even if they were not there in the coming meeting, the projects for their areas have fair chances to get cleared.
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Subas Rauto to get national award on Teachers' Day
Mussoorie, September 3 This award is in recognition of the highest level of dedicated, sincere and selfless services to the administration and his outstanding contribution in the field of education. Rauto has been imparting education to the Tibetan refugee children for the past several years under the CTSA, an exclusive department setup by the Centre. He has visited the United Kingdom in connection with Ukieri Cluster Programme initiated by the British Council in 2008 and also received the CTSA Incentive Award in 2007. Rauto said it was indeed an honour to receive the prestigious award for which only 200 teachers were selected around the country. Rauto, a qualified resource person in the field of Peace Education, further said, “Enjoying work is nothing but love made visible. Knowledge is pointless if one does not enjoy what one does and does it creatively.” He is teaching mathematics to Class XI and XII students in CST, Mussoorie. He has been a member of the text book development committee in the NCERT. The other colleagues in the school are elated at this rare distinction and are of the view that Rauto with his dedication towards teaching has brought laurel not only to the school but Uttarakhand too. Rauto expressed his gratitude to the administration of the CTSA, Principal, Rector, friends, associates and students for the success he achieved.
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Book on Swami Vivekanand draws appreciation
Haridwar, September 3 The book evinces Swami Vivekanand as a poet, thinker and philosopher and cites various unknown facets of his life that are rarely touched by writers. Talking to TNS, Dr Radhika Nagrath said she drew inspiration from Swami Vivekanand after reading about his famous speech delivered at Chicago in 1893 during Parliament of the World’s Religions. “I was not much fascinated by English (western) poets and philosophers. I wanted to take up a person of my choice whose ideas have helped me battle the trials and tribulations of life.” Earlier, almost all previous research works on Swami Vivekanand were done by students of philosophy. After months of struggle, the department of English language, HNB Garhwal University, helped me post the completion of my PhD on ‘Indianness in the Poetry of Swami Vivekanand’. Later Kolkata-based Advaita Ashram accepted my work and Swami Bodhasarananda published
my manuscript. Shedding light on the book, she relates major philosophical concepts of ‘being’, ‘suffering’, ‘death’ and ‘nirvana’, which are discussed in his devotional poems with immaculate description and references. Swami Vivekananda’s admittance of the fact of ‘his being above all a poet’ and various distinctions in his metaphysical, devotional, naturalistic and classical poems have been explored and justified in this book with dexterity. Nagrath calls Swami Vivekananda the first in the line of the devotional poets who chose to express tenets of faith in well-crafted verse. “The inner quest for detachment in all kinds of works and the glory of renunciation are the hallmarks of Swami Vivekananda’s poem ‘The Song of the Sannyasin’. He is propounding the non-attachment theory of Bhagavad Gita in which the poem is a clarion call to spiritual life and has the effect of rousing the reader’s morale,” illustrates Nagrath. “Swami Vivekananda can be called the poet of life and salvation. He is different from other philosophical poets, who consider salvation to be a ‘thing after death’. He stresses that salvation can be achieved during life as well.” Now, Nagrath is ready with her next coffee table book ‘Carnival of Peace-Kumbh Faith in
Haridwar’.
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Taxi union members beat up jeep driver
Mussoorie, September 3 The injured driver was admitted to St Mary's Hospital, and considering his critical condition, was referred late night to Doon Hospital, where he is undergoing treatment. The incident occurred when the driver of the Jeep Owners' Association was trying to ferry one tourist to Kempty Falls yesterday evening. According to the bystanders, more than 20 members from the Mussoorie Car-Taxi Association, receiving the information that Sunil Chauhan, a driver from the other association was trying to seat a tourist in his jeep from Kempty stand at zero point, rushed to the spot to stop him, which led to an argument, and later turned into a brawl. Around 12 drivers from the Mussoorie Car-Taxi Association beat him up badly. When the other drivers from the other association rushed to rescue him, the perpetrators fled from the scene. The president of the Jeep Owners' Association, Jawahar Singh, rushed to the police station and filed a complaint against the drivers. The police registered the case against 21 persons persons. However, the agitated jeep owners agitated when no arrests were made in the case till today noon. They gheraoed the police station and demanded immediate arrest of the perpetrators. The Jeep Owners' Association has given an ultimatum of 48 hours to the police for the arrest and said that if the police failed to do so, they would jam the Mussoorie-Kempty-Yamnotri highway until their demands were met. — OC
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Main accused in temple theft case arrested
Dehradun, September 3 The accused Kulwant had been involved in a number of thefts, all committed in temples in
Bijnor, Udham Singh Nagar, Delhi and Chandigarh. Kulwant is the kingpin of the gang of hardened criminals who would commit thefts in temples. Two other members of his gang, Harjit and Gurdip Singh, had already been arrested by city police. Senior Superintendent of Police, Neeru Garg said : “The gang would collect all sorts of information about the temples on their target and commit thefts there. They would hide the stolen material in a place taken on rent for the purpose and sell this to the jewellers with whom they had an understanding." Circle Officer, City, TD Bella, said the police would impose Gangster Act on all the accused so that they did not come out of jail on bail for at least for one year. He said all the members of Kulwant gang had been arrested by the police.
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Development not possible without private sector: Secy
Dehradun, September 3 Sharma began his talk by enlightening the audience with current information on various infrastructure-related projects which have either been taken up or are in the focus area of the state government to be taken up in the near future like heli-tourism, ropeways, adventure sports, shopping malls, air-road-rail connectivity, etc. He then drew attention of the audience to the various challenges faced by the state government in terms of financing these projects and admitted that infrastructure development could not happen without the participation of the private sector. Lastly, he talked about the opportunities lying for the private sector in infrastructure building of Uttarakhand. He challenged the students to come forward and contribute in the various state government projects by way of participation in case studies, R & D, data collection and innovative ideas on various aspects of project implementation. Apart from the students, senior faculty members were also present.
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Rainfall in state 12% below normal
Dehradun, September 3 The state has received 899 mm of rainfall from June 1 to August 31, which is 12 per cent below normal. Normally, the entire state gets 1,022 mm of rainfall from June 1 to August 31. Rainfall is considered normal if is between -19 per cent to +19 per cent. While the state was deficient in rainfall in June, the rainfall in August was 461 mm, which was against the normal of 426 mm. Interestingly, despite the reports of damage due to rain and flash floods in the hills, three districts of the state- Pithoragarh, Rudraprayag and Udham Singh Nagar, received nearly 36 per cent less rainfall from June 1 to August 31 this year. The Champawat and Almora district also received 25 and 24 per cent of rain, respectively, less than the normal.
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Inter-school girls’ basketball tournament from today
Dehradun, September 3 The tournament was introduced by the board of governors of St. Thomas College, Dehradun, to felicitate and honour RV Gardner, a former legislator and Principal of St. Thomas College, Dehradun, on his completion of 25 years of outstanding and dedicated service to the institution in 2005. To encourage the sport, it was decided to hold the tournament on a league-cum-knockout basis so as to give all teams a chance to play over a longer period of time. In all 13 teams are participating in this immensely popular tournament divided into three pools. The tournament is affiliated to the Uttarakhand Basketball Association and all matches will be officiated by qualified referees.
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Mussoorie Girls’ Inter College wins dance competition
Mussoorie, September 3 In the group singing competition, students of Sanatan Dharm Inter-College were declared winners while Mussoorie girls Inter-College were adjudged runners-up. In the solo singing competition, Priyanka Tamta from Sanatan Dharm and Ravi Kumar from RN Bargav Inter-college were declared first and second, respectively. In the group dance competition, Mussoorie Girls Inter-College students were adjudged winners while RN Bhargav Inter College stood second. Five schools had participated in the competition.
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Camp for physically challenged today
Dehradun, September 3 District Magistrate
Ravinath Raman, while addressing mediapersons, said, “Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna and Social Welfare
and Transport Minister Surender Rakesh will preside over the function. Artificial limbs will be donated to the needy by Lala Durgacharan Charitable Artificial Limb Centre of Ambala. People present on the occasion will get wheel chairs, tricycles, crutches, hearing aid etc.” Income certificate, pension certificate, cheques for scholarship and loans will also be distributed by officials of related
departments.
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Football tournament begins
Dehradun, September 3 In the first match, Moravian Institute defeated Cambrian Hall School 3-0. Summer Valley School beat Indian Cambridge School 5-0 while The Doon School defeated Shivalik International School by
7-0. — TNS
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Communist parties to hold protest on Sept 10
Dehradun, September 3 Member of the state committee, CPI (ML), Raja Bahuguna, said, “The decision to hold a joint protest against the state government’s anti-people policies has been taken by secretary, CPI (M), Vijay Rawat, secretary, CPI, Samar Bhandari, and CPI (ML) together.
— TNS
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Win for Balaji Boys in Nemi Dass football tourney
Titled ‘Swami Vivekanand: The Known Philosopher, The Unknown Poet’, the book treads through known and unknown aspect of the legend who transformed the Indian
philosophy. The book cites various unknown facets of his life that are rarely
touched by writers
