Medical College Affiliation Issue
Pevious orders suspended
Dehradun, May 4
Hearing an appeal related to the affiliation of the Guru Ram Institute of Medical and Health Sciences by the Medical Council of India, the Sessions Court has passed an order suspending all previous orders of the lower court.

Dehradun, May 4
Vinod Chamoli was today sworn in as Mayor of the Dehradun Municipal Corporation. Commissioner Garhwal Subardhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to Chamoli at a ceremony held at the municipal corporation forecourt. This is Chamoli’s second stint as mayor. Chamoli subsequently administered the oath to all newly elected 60 councillors of the corporation as the Commissioner had to leave for Roorkie and Haridwar to attend the swearing-in ceremonies of the two civic bodies.

Chamoli administered the oath to a batch of 10 councillors at a time. The BJP has 34 councillors, Congress 22, and the BSP and Independents have two councillors each. The swearing-in ceremony was followed by a group photograph.

BJP councillor Rakhi Barathwal was the last to be sworn in as she turned up late.

Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Leader of Opposition Ajay Bhatt, BJP’s Tehri Garhwal MP Mala Raj Lakshmi Shah, former Assembly Speaker Harbans Kapoor and BJP MLA Ganesh Joshi attended the ceremony. None of the Congress MLAs from Dehradun district attended the function.

Later, interacting with mediapersons, Chamoli expressed gratitude to the people of Dehradun for reposing faith in him. He said it was his priority to ensure the best of infrastructure in Dehradun city and that hewould work to make the city garbage-free. He would also restore Dehradun’s greenery, Chamoli added.

BJP’s Chamoli defeated his nearest rival Suryakant Dhasmana of Congress in the Dehradun mayoral poll by margin of 22,912 votes. Family members of the newly elected councillors turned up in large numbers at the ceremony. Chamoli’s wife Shashi was also presenton on the occasion.

Haridwar, May 4
Women will have a major say in the working of the Haridwar Municipal Corporation as 13 ward councilors are women in the stipulated 30 member civic body. As the 13 women councilors took oath today, it’s being hoped that they will ensure peaceful and disciplined working of the corporation, which was missing in the previous tenure.

While 10 seats were in the reserved category, three women emerged victorious fighting against male counterparts. These three seats are Ward no 2 where Nisha Devi won, ward no-14 where Sapna Sharma emerged victorious and ward no-20 that was clinched by Hema Mishra.

The other women councilors are Laxmi (ward no-1), Vimla Devi (ward no-3), Seema (ward no-8), Kiran Devi (ward no-9), Nasreen (ward no-10), Lalita Chauhan (ward no-23), Shama Parveen (ward no-26) and Kalavati Negi (ward no-28). Two independent women candidates also showed their prowess with Tarannum winning from ward no-24 and Anita Sharma from ward no-29.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has eight women ward councilors, the maximum, while the Congress has three councillors out of its total tally of six.

Notably, the BJP had fielded women candidates in 13 ward seats, out of which it won eight while the Congress had given ticket to 11 women candidates, out of which it won three seats.

BJP’s Hema Mishra is the most experienced among them as she has been elected for the third consecutive time as ward councillor.

Sapna Sharma has made it two victories in a row, while the other women councilors took oath today for the first time for the Haridwar civic body.

Mayor Manoj Garg said that the women councillors’ strength being almost 50 per cent was a sign of women empowerment. He said that with their cooperation, he would try to live up to the expectations of the people.

Sapna Sharma, Lalita Chauhan, Kalavati Negi and Tarannum told TNS that they would focus on their respective ward problems and try to make Haridwar the best civic body in Uttarakhand.

Haridwar, May 4
Newly elected Mayor Manoj Garg and 30 ward councillors of the Haridwar Municipal Corporation were sworn in at a grand function on the MC premises here this evening. Divisional Commissioner, Garhwal, Subardhan was the chief guest of the function.

Former Chief Minister BC Khanduri, Rajya Sabha MP Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Leader of the Opposition in state Assembly Ajay Bhatt were also present.

Later Garg told mediapersons that he was happy that the people had given the BJP a majority in the 30-member corporation. He said he would soon form the working executive committee comprising 12 members. A resolution would be tabled in the MC board meeting on the issue and an election would be held to elect the working executive committee members.

As the BJP has 19 councillors in the MC, it would be easy for the Mayor to constitute the executive body.

Former state Cabinet minister Madan Kaushik, local legislators Aadesh Chauhan, Chandrasekhar Bhattewala, Swami Yatishwaranand, Chief MC Officer Jeevan Singh Nangiyal, Additional MC Officer Harshwardhan Mishra and prominent residents of the city were also present on the occasion.

Former Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank had two years ago upgraded the local Municipal Committee to a Municipal Corporation.

Mussoorie, May 4
The SDM, Mussoorie, NS Dangi, today administered the oath of office to newly elected president of the Municipal Council Manmohan Singh Mall and 11 council members at a function held in a ground near the MC premises.

After taking the oath, the council members, Anuj Gupta from ward no 1, Ramesh Bharti ward no 2, Ramesh Bhandari ward no 3 Beena Panwar ward no 4, Sashi Rawat ward no 5 , Vinod Semwal ward no 6, Arvind Gusain ward no 7, Kuldeep Rawat ward no 8, Rami Devi ward no 9, Virendar Panwar ward no 10 and Jasveer Kaur ward no 11, reiterated their commitment to focus on development.

The oath-taking ceremony was attended by Cabinet minister Yashpal Arya, Urban Development Minister Preetam Singh Panwar, Sports minister Dinesh Agarwal, Mussoorie MLA Ganesh Joshi, former Mussoorie MLA Jot Singh Gunsola and former MC president OP Uniyal.

Senior Congress leaders congratulated Mall on his victory and assured of all support from the government for the development of the town.

Addressing a gathering, Mall thanked the voters and said he would try to fulfil all commitments made by him in the manifesto. He requested state ministers to sanction a proposal for the construction of Town Hall within a month and in the larger interest of the town.

Mall said he would focus on developing parking lots, housing colonies for the poor and several other projects related to promoting tourism in the town. He said no project would be sanctioned without the availability of budget in the council during his tenure. He appealed to the people to keep pointing out shortcomings in the council working, so that it could be rectified in time.

Uniyal said he would extend all possible support to the new council on the development issue but would oppose any anti-people activity carried out by it.

Yashpal Arya said now it was the responsibility of the office-bearers to fulfil the promises made by them with honesty and integrity.

Preetam Singh Panwar said he would support the council on the issue of the construction of Town Hall, Clock Tower and parking lots in Mussoorie. Dinesh Agarwal said he would keep providing necessary suggestions on development to the council.

President of the local unit of the Congress Bhagwan Singh Dhanai, BJP unit president Roop Singh, Javed Khan, Satish Dhaundiyal, BP Kukreti, Shoorvir Rawat and Praveen Panwar were present.

Haridwar, May 4
Ram Prakash Sharma, a representative of the Uttar Railway Majdoor Union (URMU), today visited Haridwar to thank its members for the victory of the URMU in the recent union elections in all stations falling under the Moradabad division.

A large number of URMU members gave a rousing welcome to Sharma at the railway station. Later he addressed the union members at the union office. He said the interests of the URMU members would be safeguarded and their issues would be taken up with the authorities.

He said workers’ exploitation had increased during the tenure of the previous union body and it would not be allowed anymore.

Sharma said the exploitation of workers was the main reason for the victory of the URMU. The Class IV employees played a pivotal role in the successful running of the Railways. However, they were being ignored while the officials got all benefits and perks, he added. Sharma said complaints about the dependents of deceased employees not being given proper compensation was a serious matter and the union would take it up the Railway Minister and officials.

District chief of the Bhel Majdoor Kalyan Parishad Shah Dev Chetri spoke about various problems being faced by labourers and the denial of basic amenities to them.

URMU district president Pravesh Kumar, secretary Dilawar Singh, Inder Mohan Barthwal, Suresh Sharma and Deepak Chetri honoured Sharma. 

Dehradun, May 4
A two-day national seminar on Hindi vocabulary in economics started today at Shri Guru Ram Rai (PG) College, Dehradun. This seminar is being organised in joint collaboration with Scientific and Technical Vocabulary Commission, Union Ministry of Human Resource Development and Shri Guru Ram Rai (PG) College.

While inaugurating the conference, US Rawat, Vice-Chancellor, Dev Suman University, Uttarakhand, in his address said Hindi stood as a popular language of communication and needs to be promoted. He said it was a matter of happiness that as many as eight lakh words had been incorporated in economics vocabulary.

Ex-Secretary, Scientific and Technical Vocabulary Commission, DD Nautiyal, in his address said the objective of the national seminar was to present the write ups over the subjects of economics vocabulary.

SGRR PG College’s Principal VA Bourai said by means of workshop and seminar, new words of economics had been formed, which will benefit the researchers in future.

Prof JP Pachuri, Dean of Social Science, HNB Garhwal University, and Prof RR Nautiyal, head, Department of Economics, HNB Garhwal University, spoke at the inaugural function. Eminent economists from reputed institutions of the country are participating in the conference.

Dehradun, May 4
Jodie Underhill, founder of voluntary organisation Waste Warriors, gave a presentation on waste management at the St. Joseph’s Academy (SJA) here today. The purpose of the programme was to develop a greener and cleaner India by using all waste products.

Jodie has conducted seminars at Dharamsala, Jharkhand, New Delhi and Dehradun and also actively participated in the cleanliness drive at these places.

She said every student should come forward to keep his or her surrounding clean and help in spreading the message across the nation.

Jodie told the gathering that she was organising a rally tomorrow. It would start from the St. Joseph’s Academy and proceed towards Clock Tower and Darshan Lal Chowk and end at the school. Students of the academy seemed eager to participate in it.

Principal Rev Bro AJ George praised the efforts of the Waste Warriors and encouraged the students to contribute to the cause in everyway possible. Head boy Utsav Thapliyal proposed a vote of thanks.

Dehradun, May 4
The State Bank of India presented ceiling fans as part of its corporate social responsibility to Nanhi Duniya-“The international movement of children and their friends”-at a function here today. On the occasion, children presented prayers and recited songs. Keeping with the traditions of the school, a child applied tilak and presented a bouquet to the branch manager Udesh Bhandari.

Kiran Goyal Ulfat, chief promoter of the school, showed her gratitude to the bank for its work and sensitivity towards this noble social cause. Expressing her views Kiran said: “I take this opportunity to invite individuals who are interested in the work of Nanhi Duniya and who are willing to serve children wholeheartedly to come and join us. No aim can be realised without the help of dedicated workers. The welfare activities of Nanhi Duniya need good teachers, co-workers, volunteers and real friends. We are proud to say that we are a charity which runs on parents’ contributions, gifts from friends, which helps to strengthen the infrastructure.” Refreshment was distributed among the children by Udesh Bhandari, manager of the SBI.

Mussoorie, May 4
On the second day of the roller skating and hockey championship held at Appu Ghar, Mallav from UP and Guru Simran from J&K stole the show today by winning the roller skating inline races in junior girls and boys categories.

In sub-junior division rink races (boys categories) Bhurya from J&K stood first and Shaurya Kant Jha from Uttarakhand second. In loose bearing race, Arnav Jain from Rajasthan stood first while Abhinav from Uttarakhand stood second. Hanontra from Rajasthan was adjudged third.

The other winners in various races were Yuvraj, Rochit, Aryan from J&K, Ayush, Samuel from UP were adjudged first and second respectively in junior division. In girls categories Vedicka from Uttarakhand was adjudged first in inline race. In senior division Prince from UP, Rhythm from J&K stood first and second respectively. In relay races senior division, Uttar Pradesh stood first while in junior division Haryana stood first. In sub junior division relay race J&K stood first while Haryana stood second.