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MC poll: Congress intensifies process for finalising candidates
Civic poll on April 28
Social activists allege massive
fraud in Mussoorie voters' list
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Bahuguna distributes bicycles among 50 girl students
DM gets tough on polythene ban
Women stop opening of liquor shop in Almora
STF nabs hardened Bihar criminal from Doon
The accused in police custody in Dehradun on Thursday. Tribune photo: Vinod Pundir
Don't slaughter cows, Guv to community
Governor Aziz Qureshi being felicitated at a seminar organised by the All-India Jamiat-ul Quresh in Dehradun.
Novel way to educate youth about traffic rules, signs
1,202 booths set up for pulse polio drive
Boycott of work by class IV staff enters 5th week
Class IV employees of the state government stage a protest as part of their indefinite strike in Haridwar on Thursday. Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaur
Sharma president of PMHS, Doon
Doon Tigers defeat Arya Club
A batsman in action during a match in the 5th All-India Uttarakhand Cricket Cup Tournament in Dehradun on Thursday. Tribune photo: Vinod Pundir
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MC poll: Congress intensifies process for finalising candidates
Mussoorie, April 4 The two observers from Congress Vikram Singh Negi and Wahidullah Khan arrived in Mussoorie and met the members of Congress. The probable candidates and their supporters in a show of strength began raising slogans in favour of their respective candidates as soon as the observers arrived at Congress Bhavan here. The observers held a discussion with the senior leaders of the Congress and met every aspirant individually in order to assess their claims for the post they had applied for. Vikram Singh Negi, addressing the Congress workers, said that names of the candidates would be declared only after a complete scrutiny and they would look into several aspects and then determine the candidature for MC elections. The former MC president, Manmohan Singh Mall, Megh Singh Kandari and Satish Dhaundhyia presented their papers staking claim to the post of president here.Virendar Rawat withdrew his name in favour of Manmohan Singh Mall, thus making the road to MC president easy for Manmohan Singh Mall. Several ward members also kept their view in front of the observers and pleaded to consider them for the post in the upcoming elections. The former MLA, Jot Singh Gunsola, said that Congress was one family and everyone should unite behind the candidate announced by the party so that they can win in MC elections. The observers, after determining the candidature of every member, would be submitting the report to the organisation and the names would be announced soon.
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Civic poll on April 28
DEHRADUN: The polling for civic bodies' elections in Uttarakhand will take place on April 28. A notification for the conduct of the polls in the state was issued today. Filing of nominations will take place from April 8 till April 12. Scrutiny of nomination papers will be done on April 13. The withdrawals can be done on April 15. Further, allotment of symbols will take place on April 16.
The polling is slated to take place on April 28, whereas counting will be held on April 30. — TNS
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Social activists allege massive
fraud in Mussoorie voters' list
Mussoorie, April 4 The social activists alleged that the local Municipal Council member from Ward No 3 in connivance with officials had added more than 50 names of voters who either reside in the paternal village of the ward member or in Landour Cant Board to the voters' list of the MC, using fraudulent
means. Amit Bhatt, the social activist from Mussoorie, met the SDM and presented him a memorandum attached with documented proof of the person enrolled in the municipal voters' list of
Mussoorie, violating all electoral norms so that he can benefit in the upcoming municipal polls
here. Bhatt informed the SDM that the number of voters in ward no 3 during Lok Sabha elections held in 2012 was around 1650 but the present list contains names of around 2100 voters, revealing the nefarious nexus between the officials and the ward member in question. Bhatt further said that in addition to this, a number of names have been entered twice, thus raising serious doubts over the whole exercise, which could affect the prospects of other candidates adversely in the municipal
elections. He said that for example Arvind Singh who registered as a voter in Government Inter College of Padia village in Pratap Nagar district, Tehri
Garhwal, also figures in the list of MC, Mussoorie, with the serial no of 810. Similar irregularities have come to light. Several other names have been added to the MC,
Mussoorie, list. He demanded that the administration after conducting an enquiry should cancel the list and begin the exercise once again so that only genuine voters can cast their votes in the
elections. SDM NS Dangi, when contacted, said that it was a grave issue and an enquiry will be conducted to ascertain the truth. He also said that if any irregularities are found in the voters' list, punitive action will be taken against the officials involved in it without any delay. When contacted the ward member Ramesh Bhandari refuted the charges and said that he had no inkling about the matter. He also said that as some new aspirants were also seeking the people’s mandate from the ward, they were conspiring to tarnish his
image.
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Bahuguna distributes bicycles among 50 girl students
Dehradun, April 4 He also gave cheques to prinicipals for creating fixed deposits for 30 students of Government Inter-College, Saiya ,14 students of Lakhwar and 29 students of Nagthat. At a function held at Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya Vidyalaya, Nanur Khera here, the Chief Minister said the youth and women had an important role to play in the state’s development. He said the scheme had been launched to increase the number of girls joining schools and to check the dropout rate of girl students. Cycles would make it convenient for girl students in the plains to go to school and the FDs would also give an incentive to them in hill areas. The CM said education among girls would greatly help society to progress. He said Indian women were not lagging behind in any field and must be given all possibilities for development. He called upon students to plan their careers and work hard to achieve their goals. Education Minister MP Naithani said a survey conducted recently had shown Uttarakhand to be a leading state in the field of education. Secretary (School Education) Manisha Panwar said the scheme would provide free of cost cycles to girl students of class IX in plain areas and an FD for the amount equal to the cost of a cycle to girl students of class 9 in hill areas. The FD would be handed over to the girl after clearing class 12. In the first phase of the scheme, 16,318 girls in 22 development blocks of the plain areas will be given cycles and 36,278 girl students of hill areas will be given FDs. The cost of the scheme per annum in the first phase would be Rs 16 crore. MLA Umesh Sharma, Principal Secretary Rakesh Sharma, DG (School Education) RK Sudhanshu, DG (Information) Vinod Sharma, DM PVRC Purushottam, teachers and students were present on the occasion.
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DM gets tough on polythene ban
Dehradun, April 4 He directed them to issue challans to more offenders. He said they must not be lenient in this matter and issue challans or impose penalty to violators. He also noticed scant participation of government and semi-government schools in the campaign. He directed the Chief Education Officer to ask schoolchildren to bring polythene bags or things made of polythene from their houses and collect them in school on April 12. He appreciated 47 resident welfare associations of the city for their unstinted support against the menace. He acknowledged drastic reduction in the use of polythene in the city but pointed out its use in the adjoining rural areas. To make the campaign against polythene effective in those areas, he directed SDMs and block-level officers to take stringent steps in this regard. He urged sector magistrates to follow this campaign not as part of their official duty but as moral duty where they must contribute in providing a clean and pollution-free environment to the residents of the city. He asked them to become more proactive and make this campaign successful. On this occasion, president of the Doon Residents Association Welfare Front Dr Mahesh Bhandari and secretary Devender Singh Monty distributed jute bags to all sector magistrates. A message, “Remove Polythene, Save Environment” was written on each bag. Bhandari said their members would distribute these bags to people at Clock Tower and had set the target of distributing one lakh such bags in the city. The other officials who were present at the meeting included Joint Magistrate Ranjana Verma, ADM Finance Jharna Kamthan, ADM Executive Harak Singh Rawat, Additional Mukhya Nagar Adhikari Sadia Alam Khan, Chief Education Officer MP Khati, Chief Manager Industries Kaushalaya Bandhu, District Social Welfare Officer Ram Avtar Singh, District Information Officer Ajay Mohan Saklani.
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Women stop opening of liquor shop in Almora
Pithoragarh, April 4 The administration officers have to return empty-handed as the women protesters did not let them facilitate the opening of the auctioned liquor shop. “We have told the women that if they don’t want the liquor shop to open at the place where it has been auctioned, the administration is ready to locate it elsewhere. But they did not agree to our proposal,” said Ramesh Bora, revenue inspector. “When liquor shops are found every where in the state why an anti-liquor agitation should be staged in Bharochkhan town. The town will see an increase in wine smuggling from other states as well as brewing of illegal liquor. This will cause revenue losses to the state exchequer,” said Kailash Pant, leader of the traders’ union at Bhatrochkhan. According to sources close to the sub-divisional administration, the traders started opposing the agitation after some youths raised abusive slogans while supporting the anti-liquor agitation of the women in the town. The protesters, on the other hand, said due to the easy availability of liquor in the town, their husbands were selling their valuables, land and jewellery to purchase liquor. “Our housewives are facing daily humiliation at the hands of their drunkard husbands as they beat them for opposing their drinking habit,” said Deepa Joshi, president of the morcha at Bhatrochkhan. Besides Bhatrochkhan, the women activists also demonstrated at Rudrapur, Kashipur, Chalthi and Pati towns against the opening of liquor shops. — OC
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STF nabs hardened Bihar criminal from Doon
Dehradun, April 4 People in the neighbourhood had no inkling about Shambhu being a dreaded criminal. He had maintained secrecy about his real status before neighbours. SSP,
STF, Abudai Santhiyal, while addressing a press conference said Shambu’s main work was to help contractors in bagging the big contracts of development projects by threatening their competitors not to pose any hurdles in the process. Shambhu, resident of Muzaffarpur in Bihar, fell for crime for easy money when he joined a gang of notorious criminals Munna Shukla and Sri Prakash Shukla. This gang was committing murders and forcibly getting the CPWD contracts and making huge money out of this.
In 1997 Shambhu joined their gang. By 2000, the gang executed dozens of murders and earned crores of money. Munna Shukla went to the extent of killing the then state minister of Bihar Brij Bihari Prasad. He was later arrested and is serving jail term at present. His brother Sri Prakash was killed in a police
encounter. While this was going on, Shambhu Singh separated from Shukla gang and floated his own gang with accomplice Mantu Singh. In the gang wars, umpteen murders were committed from both sides. Meanwhile, Shambhu shifted his base to Dehradun and began living with his first wife, a Muslim woman. Earlier to this, he had married a Hindu woman, on the insistence of his parents, but left her.
Far from the prying eyes of Bihar, he managed to stay in the city for eight long years. Dehradun police got no whiff of him either. Santhiyal said: ''Such people
lie low and live simply with great secrecy in such a manner that the people who live around them or come into contact of them do not come to know of their actual identify. Dehradun police too did not come to know of Shambhu either.'' He said the accused was caught at the right time as he was planning to leave Dehradun and settle down in Gujarat. He had gathered information about Bihar police arresting one of his gang members. He got apprehensive about imminent police
arrest. Bihar STF had contacted STF Dehradun, requesting the SSP to assist in Shambhu’s arrest. The SSP constituted a team under Inspector Kailash Panwar and arrested the accused from Balliwala crossing at GMS
Road yesterday. After going through the formal modalities, Shambhu will be handed over to Bihar police. Inspector General, Law and Order, Ram Singh Meena, has rewarded the STF team with Rs 10,000.
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Don't slaughter cows, Guv to community
Dehradun, April 4 He was speaking as a chief guest at a one-day national seminar of the Qureshi community organised by the All-India Jamiat-ul Quresh which concluded here last evening. It was decided unanimously at the seminar that any person of the Qureshi community found involved in cow slaughter anywhere in the country would be boycotted by the community and strict action would be taken against him. The Governor assured the community that they would not be tortured in any way for being falsely involved in cow slaughter. The Governor also called upon the community to focus on education of their children, especially girls, keep away from evils like dowry and work dedicatedly towards the development of the country. The community declared that they would avoid dowry and fight against illiteracy. The community honoured the Governor. Present on the occasion were Jamiat-ul Quresh national deputy chairman Haji Salaluddin, organisers Haji Ahsan Qureshi, Haji Akram Qureshi, Haji Dilshad Qureshi and members of the community from various parts of the country.
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Novel way to educate youth about traffic rules, signs
Dehradun, April 4 Regional Transport Officer Sudhanshu Garg has hit upon a novel way to achieve his objective. He is distributing
two booklets prepared by the Transport Department, Government of India, in each of the 400 schools in the
city. He said all the applications for a new licence or renewal of licence for buses of schools would now be passed through him. It is at this juncture that he would enquire about the progress report of the instructions imparted to children through these guidebooks. His gesture indicates that he is going to become tough with those schools which under perform. The school authorities would be directed to arrange for lectures based on these books either in the morning sessions or special classes, where chapters from these booklets could be read out to the
students. Time could also be allotted for the subject on every day basis as per the convenience of schools. They must also hold tests to ensure that children take these lectures seriously and remember important instructions as well. According to him, it is difficult for the RTO Department to handle the task of training people about the traffic rules single-handedly. It is through schools, where youngsters in their vulnerable age make the gravest mistakes in driving can be trained in few sessions about the traffic regulations. These children being flexible also imbibe the instructions internally, if taught
emphatically. He also offered all kinds of cooperation from the department to the schools in this regard. He is also thinking on the lines of conducting an examination in the schools on this topic and rewarding the best scoring students or distributing certificates on behalf of the department.
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1,202 booths set up for pulse polio drive
Dehradun, April 4 He said the participation of lekhpal (revenue clerk) and Block Development Officers and Rural Development Officers should also be ensured in the campaign. He directed the Additional District Education Officer to keep all schools open on the day of campaign in the district. As many as 1,202 booths had been set up to give polio drops to the children in the district under this campaign. — TNS
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Boycott of work by class IV staff enters 5th week
Haridwar, April 4 The agitating employees gathered at Pt Gobind Ballabh Pant Park and raised slogans against the government for having failed to fulfil assurances given to them several times. The employees have been demanding the implementation of a government notification regarding the pay grade profit to all class IV employees in the state since January 1, 2006. Addressing a gathering, general secretary of the union Dinesh Lakheda said despite their agitation entering the fifth week, no one from the government side had taken cognizance of their problems. The employees said they would continue to boycott work till Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna gave them an assurance in written. Divisional general secretary of the union Gobind Ballabh Upadhyaya said on April 22, the union members would gather at Dehradun and take out a protest march to the state Assembly. District chief of the union Shiv Narayan Singh said while lakhs were being spent on foreign tours of ministers, the Chief Minister made an excuse of the paucity of funds when it came to hike their pay and other allowances. Mahendra Manocha,Vinay Kant Bhatt, Raj Kumar, Pramod Pant, Jay Narayan, Narendra Bagdi, Uday Bhan, Beena, Chandra Kala and Malti addressed the gathering.
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Sharma president of PMHS, Doon
Dehradun, April 4 Declaring the results Navjeet Bedi, emergency medical officer, Doon Hospital, said that Pankaj Sharma received 72 votes and defeated his nearest rival SK Jha by a margin of 16 votes. Jha received a total of 57 votes. Anand Shukla received a total of 76 votes, while his rival Mohammed Shah Hasan received 73 votes.
A total of three candidates comprising SK Jha of Doon Hospital, Pankaj Sharma of Doon Hospital and RS Chauhan of Doon Hospital were in the fray for the post of president, while two candidates were in the fray for the post of the secretary. — TNS
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Doon Tigers defeat Arya Club
Dehradun, April 4 In reply, Arya Club, New Delhi, made 127 runs for the loss six wickets and then conceded the match. They lost by 135 runs. Kamaldeep was the top scorer with 53 runs while Pawan remained unbeaten on 30 runs. Deepak Bansal took four wickets for 32 runs.
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Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna distributed cycles among 50 girl students while launching the Mukhyamantri Balika Shiksha Protsahan Yojana here today.
He also gave cheques to prinicipals for creating fixed deposits for 30 students of Government Inter-College, Saiya ,14 students of Lakhwar and 29 students of
Nagthat.
Special Task Force (STF) officers arrested hardened criminal of Bihar Shambhu Singh, 37, from Indira Nagar Colony at GMS Road in the city late yesterday. Bihar government had announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for giving information about
Shambhu, who has committed 22 murders and has been booked under around 47 cases of heinous crimes in Bihar. He was living in Dehradun with his wife since 2004, while operating his work in Bihar from here.
Governor Aziz Qureshi has called upon all members of the Qureshi community to give up cow slaughter so that sentiments of any community were not hurt and people could live in peace with a feeling of
brotherhood.
Class IV employees under the aegis of the Fourth Grade State Employees' Union refrained from official work for the fifth consecutive week today in support of their
demands.
Doon Tigers defeated Arya Club, New Delhi, by 135 runs during a match in the 5th All-India Uttarakhand Cricket Cup-2013 played at the Rangers’ College ground here today. Batting first after winning the toss, Doon Tigers scored 262 runs all out in 34.4 overs helped by a century by A Karanwal. 