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State's stand on domicile certificate comes under fire
Selaqui students, staff carry out cleanliness drive at Vikasnagar
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CPI, CPM, Samajwadi Party convene joint meeting on FDI
Poachers eyeing Uttarakhand: Maneka Gandhi
State Bharat Scouts and Guides chief calls Dhaka conference fruitful
A Japanese contigent member offers sweets to Rajeev Sharma, State Headquarters Commissioner, Uttarakhand Bharat Scouts and Guides, during the recent 24th Asia Pacific Regional Scout Conference at Dhaka. A Tribune photograph
Montessori students give splendid performance on sports day
Doon Defence Academy win Beehive cricket tourney
The Doon Defence Academy team that won the Beehive Inter-College Cricket Tournament in Dehradun on Sunday. A Tribune photograph
Four held for murder
DMC officials instal statues of great patriots
Shiksha mitras resort to symbolic begging
Agitating shiksha mitras beg near the Vidhan Sabha to highlight their plight in Dehradun on Sunday.
A Tribune photograph
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State's stand on domicile certificate comes under fire
Dehradun, December 9 President of the association Jagmohan Negi said the other states in the country were abiding by the decision of the Supreme Court over the issue of domicile and caste certificate, whereas the newly formed Uttarakhand a adopted different stance altogether. He said people of lower castes or Dalit communities who came from Dehradun, Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar were easily getting these certificates, but those who hailed from the hills were facing huge problems for the same. BJP leader Ravinder Jugran said those who settled in the state after 2000 would benefit from the state government’s policy on domicile certificate. He said: “The outsiders who came in the state after 2000 will vie for the benefits or facilities, which in reality are deserved by the hill people, who had been living in the state for several decades and many generations. It is this section of the hill people who struggled for the formation of the state and also sacrificed their children for it.” Leader of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (J) Omi Uniyal said the state government, on the one hand, was talking of creating infrastructure in Gairsain but on the other hand was hesitating to get the proposal regarding declaring it as summer capital passed in the Vidhan Sabha. District president of the organisation Pradeep Kukreti said the state government itself promised to give Rs 3000 to each dependent of statehood martyr but now the government was shirking from doing so by citing the reason of crunch of funds. He said the government was attempting to give employment to people of their own choice by providing them with the domicile certificate. Secretary Ramlal Khanduri said the issue of domicile and caste certificate had been reduced to the subject of division between people of plains and hills, which had distracted the attention from the main cause.
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Selaqui students, staff carry out cleanliness drive at Vikasnagar
Dehradun, December 9 About 120 school and
college students and 30 teachers participated in the drive. The drive was inaugurated by
Navprabhat, local MLA from Vikasnagar. Other guests of honour were the Chairman of the local municipality, ML Shah, Station House Officer of the Vikasnagar police station, Vinod Kumar Jetha, and SDM, Vikasnagar, Ashok Kumar. Armed with garbage
collection bags, banners and placards, the students made sincere attempts
to make the local residents aware of the crucial need for living in sanitary and clean surroundings. The authorities of Selaqui education society also
participated in the drive. The Vice-Chairman of the institute, Major General Basant Singh (retd), school Headmaster Rakesh Singh Tomar and school Deputy Headmaster Jashvir Chaudhary were eager participants as well. The drive spanned a distance of 2 km between the Vikasnagar municipality and Pahari Gali. The aim behind the
drive was to emphasise the dire need for people to take up the task of
maintaining clean, sanitary surroundings. Cleanliness of public areas becomes an onerous task if left entirely to the local authorities. The students warned
the locals that if they do not become aware of the need for clean living, they will soon be victim to many diseases that can easily be avoided by taking simple precautions for sanitation. The students encouraged the people to pick up garbage and dispose
it wisely. They did so by displaying motivating slogans and leading by example. To the surprise of the onlookers, they did
not hesitate in picking up garbage along the road. The cleanliness drive
will end with its second phase on the 14th of December, 2012, when a similar cleanliness
campaign will be conducted for the locals at Selaqui.
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CPI, CPM, Samajwadi Party convene joint meeting on FDI
Dehradun, December 9 Member, National Council, CPI, Samar Bhandari, said by bringing FDI into multi-brand retail, the Centre was affecting the interests of four crore shopkeepers, who were running from small to big 1.30 lakh shops in the country. He said the retail business which contributed 11 per cent of the total GDP should not have been thrust upon people of the country. While alluding to places like USA and Europe, he said these places provided subsidy to their farmers in billions, which shielded them from the harmful effects of FDI, but a country like India would never do so. He also brought attention to the controversial atomic energy treaty by the Centre in 2004, saying that the countrymen had all the right to know what happened to that treaty and it's benefits, of which Centre talked highly while supporting it brazenly. He said the FDI would also meet the same fate. State president, SP, SN Sanchan, said the SP had made it's position clear by staging a walkout on the FDI issue in the Rajya Sabha. He said since the state was free to enforce or reject it, so the SP had chosen to opt for the latter in Uttar Pradesh. He said if Uttarakhand tried to adopt it, it would fight vehemently against it. This very legislation would also expose other parties, especially BJP, when it would also exercise it's right with regard to implementing the FDI in states as well. He said his party was always ready to support those who would oppose FDI in any form or at any platform in the country.
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Poachers eyeing Uttarakhand: Maneka Gandhi
Dehradun, December 9 Talking to The Tribune here today, Maneka said the state had a wealth of wildlife and poachers were now finding the state an easy prey. “Poachers that have been targeting different states of the country are now eyeing Uttarakhand, as the state has a wealth of wildlife. The forest authorities need to be very cautious of the poachers,” said Maneka. Stating that Uttarakhand had a healthy population of elephants, Maneka asked the state wildlife authorities to come up with an elephant-rescue centre in the state. She said there was no elephant rescue centre in the country, which was the main reason elephant could not be taken out from zoos despite court orders for the same. She said Uttarakhand could take a lead in coming up with an elephant rescue. Expressing concern over the killing of leopards in the state, Maneka said leopards had become a big causality in the state, which was a matter of concern. She blamed the forest authorities of not taking leopard killing seriously as being done in the case of tigers. She also challenged the concept of leopard being declared man-eater. “Leopard by habit is not a man-eater and the wild Maneka also congratulated the state for bringing to an end the evil of animal sacrifice. “Uttarakhand has done a miracle. There was a notion that animal sacrifice in Uttarakhand hills cannot be stopped but this notion has been proved wrong,” she said. She also congratulated the PFA volunteers in the state for making it possible. She also questioned sacrifice of camels. “Camel is not an eating animal as per the Indian laws and thus cannot be allowed for sacrifice,” she said, while adding that the even sacrifices of goats could take place at designated places. She pointed out that in the Frankfurt fair, 50 per cent of the insects come from India, indicating the level of illegal wildlife trade in the country. She said wildlife trade was today very systematic and was conducted through Internet. She asked the Forest Department to call a meeting of it the IT cell to keep a tab on wildlife trade on Internet. She also advised the schools of the state to avoid keeping specimens as it was unlawful. She also asked the animal lover of the state to come forward for the cause of animals in distress.
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State Bharat Scouts and Guides chief calls Dhaka conference fruitful
Dehradun, December 9 Rajeev Sharma was joined by Uttarakhand School Education Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani to attend the six-day long conference that took place at famous Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, Dhaka city. He returned back to Dehradun recently. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the conference in the presence of Bangladesh Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Education Minister Nurul Islam and Foreign Minister Dipu Moni. Sharma said the visit to Dakha University and interaction with it's Vice Chancellor was very informative. Sharma asked the Dhaka University Vice Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique about the higher education scenario in Bangladesh. The VC informed that Dhaka University was one of the oldest universities of Asia and was imparting quality higher education. He said the university was most sought after by those aspiring higher education in Bangladesh. Uttarakhand Education Minister Manti Prasad Naithani also took the opportunity to visit some closeby schools and interact with the teachers and students. The Sharma-Naithani duo also visited Jahangirnagar University, another prominent university at Bangladesh. The two as part of scouting members also stayed at Sumangalam Tea Garden resort in Dhaka, where they came across Bangladeshi art and culture. They in particular visited Centre for Disability in Development (CDD), Bangladesh. CDD is manufacturing assisting devices for the disabled. As per estimate, 16 million people in Bangladesh are living with a disability. Encourse of their stay, Rajeev Sharma also had long interactions with scouts from countries like Japan and Pakistan. They also visited Bangladesh National Memorial in Dhaka.
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Montessori students give splendid performance on sports day
Dehradun, December 9 The programme commenced with the national song 'Vande Matram,' followed by the opening marchpast by class X students, who presented the guard of honour to the chief guest. The chief attraction was a variety of PT demonstrations like MacDonald's fitness, Maratha warriors, aerobics, martial arts, bamboo PT, ballon and umbrella PT etc. Good coordination was seen amongst the students during their performances. Aerobics by junior girls and martial arts by junior boys were appreciated the most. Different races like brick race, firemen's item, sack race and obstacle race entertained the spectators. A great enthusiasm was seen amongst the students for the athletic events like 100 metres sprint, skipping race, relay race etc. There was a lot of cheering from students of all the four houses to boost the morale of the participants. The programme came to a close with a dance performed by senior girls on musical notes of AR Rehman's 'Chanda suraj lakhon taare' and classical song 'Mile sur mera tumhara.' The girls holding lighted candles formed the school logo, and they looked very elegant and graceful in their costumes, which added dignity to the show.
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Doon Defence Academy win Beehive cricket tourney
Dehradun, December 9 Graphic Era University team, after winning the toss, elected to bat and scored 184 runs all out in 34.3 overs. Ashish and Mudit Tyagi were the main scorers with 49 and 43 runs, respectively. Vijay Singh took three wickets for 39 runs while Ravi Bisht took three wickets for 41 runs. Harjeet and Keshav Negi also claimed two wickets each. In reply, Doon Defence Academy scored 187 runs for six wickets in 28.1 overs to win the match by four wickets. Opener Vijay was the chief architect of the win with a polished 76 runs scored in 70 balls. Keshav also scored 27 runs for the team. Vikas took two wickets for 51 runs. Sandeep Gupta, Chairman of the Doon Defence Academy, was the chief guest
at the prize distribution ceremony.
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Four held for murder
Dehradun, December 9 Revenue Inspector Subhash Dhyani said one Muzzammil (32), resident of Bihar, was working in the area as a mason. He went missing for a few days. His brother,
Nadeem, lodged an FIR with Parwari at Hanumanti village about Muzzammil’s disappearance on November 27. During investigation, revenue police officials took Sandeep Singh of Ganaili village and Santosh into custody. On interrogation, they revealed that Muzzammil was electrocuted while releasing electric current in the river and died. They said that they took the dead body to his room and buried it in the night on a river bank at
Hanumanti, 22 km away from Kotdwara. The revenue police exhumed the body and sent it for post mortem. The arrested persons were produced in court and sent to district jail at
Pauri.
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DMC officials instal statues of great patriots
Dehradun, December 9 Mayor Vinod Chamoli said that it was a matter of pride that in the last year of the present board's term, they were installing the statues of great warriors. He also added that it had become necessary to emulate the ideologies of these great patriots in order to raise the confidence of the public in politicians. He said it was through DMC that public representatives like him and other councillors got the opportunity to serve the public. Mukhya Nagar Adhikari (MNA) Ashok Kumar, Deputy MNA Sadia Alam Khan and other DMC officials were also present on the occasion.
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State Headquarters Commissioner, Uttarakhand Bharat Scouts and Guides, Rajeev Sharma, who represented India as observer in the recently concluded 24th Asia Pacific Regional Scout Conference at Dhaka, Bangladesh, termed the conference as informative and a step towards strengthening the cause of scouting in Indian subcontinent.
Dehradun, December 9
Dehradun, December 9
The agitating shiksha
mitras, who are
demanding regularisation of their services for the past some time, today resorted to symbolic begging to highlight their plight in the city.
Carrying placards, highlighting their demands, they stopped passersby at Vidhan Sabha Chowk and asked for alms. The shiksha mitras are agitating in front of the Vidhan Sabha in
support of their demands during the ongoing Assembly session. TNS
