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Wynberg Allen, St George's students right on top
DG of ICFRE releases book on forests of India
(From left) Deputy Director General (Research), ICFRE, PP Bhojvaid, Director General
VK Bahuguna and Additional Director General TP Singh at a book releasing ceremony
in Dehradun on Friday. A Tribune photograph |
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Uttarakhand has lowest rates of infant, maternal
mortality
DM tells ambulance service, docs to cut time in reaching patients
Haridwar MC begins removing illegal hoardings
MC employee’s house gutted
Tibetans express solidarity with Panchen Lama
Aarti at Brahamkund on Ganga Saptami draws thousands
A girl performs rituals at the Ganga ghat, Haridwar, on the occasion of
Ganga Saptami on Friday. Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaur
Plan of Rs 16.14 crore approved for police modernisation
Kandali residents demand park on encroached land
Tussle among parties over burial grounds for Muslims
Mayor challaned for carrying red light on official car
Chief Secy wants simplified financial procedures
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Wynberg Allen, St George's students right on top
Mussoorie, May 17 In the class XII exams of the ISC, Ganga Singhal from Wynberg Allen School scored 97.50 per cent and topped in Mussoorie town, while Sachit Nanwani (commerce) from St George's College followed her closely with 96.25 per cent marks in Mussoorie. He scored 97 per cent marks in mathematics. Ankit Dhal(science) and Anuj Taparia from St.George's College scored 95.50 and 94.75 per cent marks to figure in the top three in the town. Malvika Chauhan from Wynberg Allen School obtained 94.25 per cent marks while Vishal Thapa, Megha Negi and Shubankar Chhaparia from the same school obtained 92.75% , 92.0% and 92 %, respectively. Ten students from St.George's College scored above 80 per cent marks in the class XII exams here. In the class X exams of the ICSE, Amol Lohani from Wynberg Allen School scored 96.40 per cent marks and emerged as the topper in the town while Sanket Sirohia from St George's College followed him closely by obtaining 95.60 %. Mayank Aggarwal from Wynberg Allen School obtained 95 per cent, thus emerging as the third topper in the town. The other students who obtained more than 90 per cent marks from Wynberg Allen school were Shivika Garg(94.2%), Sarthak Bhatia (94%), Jasjeet Singh (93%) and Kritika Goel(91%). Dhruv Bansal,Yasho Vardhan, Ayushman, Ashish Baweja from St George's College secured more than 90 per cent marks. In Mussoorie Public School, Vivek Sharma (science) topped the school in class XII by obtaining 875 marks while Saurav Kumar followed closely with 86.75 per cent. Vivek Negi and Archana Negi secured 845 marks in the science stream from the same school. In humanities Shakun Jain topped with 84.75 per cent marks while Kanak Dhanai obtained 84.55 per cent marks to emerge as the second topper in the school. In class X Kavach Khanna (82%), Nitin Rawat(80%), Diwanshi Nagpal (76.20% ),Shubham Negi (73.4%) and Shubra Kaushik (71%) emerged as the toppers in the school. In Convent of Jesus and Mary Hampton Court School, Shivani Dangwal topped the school in class X by obtaining 94.6 per cent marks while Ritu Raj Dhaundiyal with 91.8 per cent marks and Abhay Raj Bangari with 91.4 per cent marks followed closely to emerge in the toppers' list for the school. In Guru Nanak Fifth Centenary School Prakhah Raj and Mansi Gautam topped the school in class X by obtaining 91 % and 87 % marks. In class XII Ashish Gutpa with 92.75 % and Diliram with 82.75 % topped the school.
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DG of ICFRE releases book on forests of India
Dehradun, May 17 The book proposes a new system of classification of India’s forest type by classifying India’s forest into 10 groups instead of 16 and 44 sub type groups, instead of 221, as proposed earlier by Champion and Seth in 1968. Addressing the gathering on the occasion, Bahuguna said:'' India’s forests were shifting towards drier conditions, resulting in reduced biodiversity of our forests, and adversely affecting the hydrological cycle of the country.'' Referring to history of forests types in the country, Bahuguna said India's forests were classified for the first time in 1936 by Sir HG Champion and were later revised by Champion and Seth in 1968, classifying India's forests into16 major types and about 221 sub type groups. He said today even after a span of 45 years, Champion and Seth's classification was still in use for forest management purposes, while the country's forests had undergone tremendous changes owing to various factors. “In view of this, ICFRE constituted a task force in December 2011, having members from
ICFRE, it's research centres and State Forest Departments with a primary aim to revisit the forest type of India and assess the changes if any due to climatic and other factors”, Bahuguna pointed
out. Bahuguna informed that the task force assessed the current status of India’s forests and compared the changes in the forest types conditioned by climate change, management interventions and biotic pressures. Thus, finally coming up with ''Forest Types of India: Revisited.'' He said the information in the book will serve as a baseline data to monitor vegetation changes in future. On the efforts of ICFRE scientists and other staff, he said the massive work was undertaken involving more than 150 scientists and around 1800 personnel deployed from the ICFRE institutes and State Forest Departments. ''The teams made valiant efforts to visit the randomly generated sample plots located in most difficult terrains and inaccessible areas,” he said. He said the objective of the exercise was to understand the impact of climate change on forest ecosystems and also to provide the field foresters a forest classification based on field management imperatives.
Bahuguna said the study had indicated many changes occurring at species and forest sub-type levels influenced by a number of factors, including management interventions, anthropogenic and climatic changes. Deputy Director General (Research),
ICFRE, PP Bhojvaid made a small presentation and highlighted the main findings of the task force and informed that the task force had completed its work in record time. Additional Director General TP Singh presented the vote of thanks. Deputy Director General (Education) Omkar Singh and Deputy Director General (Administration) SP Singh and Saibal
Dasgupta, DDG (Extension), were also present.
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Uttarakhand
has lowest rates of infant, maternal
mortality
Dehradun, May 17 According to the health survey report, Uttarakhand has the lowest rates of infant mortality, maternal mortality and crude birth among the nine empowered action group states the annual health survey has revealed. Three of the Uttarakhand's districts comprising Almora, Pithoragarh and Rudraprayag have the lowest IMR of 20, while the national average is 44 deaths per 1,000 live births. The hill state also has the lowest MMR, the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births of 162 among nine states, while Assam has the highest of 347. Uttarakhand also scores the highest on key health indicators of sex ratio at birth (SRB), 866. Same is the case with neonatal mortaliy rate, Rudraprayag and Pithoragarh have the lowest NNMR of 12. Uttarakhand's Bageshwar has the lowest crude birth rate of 14.5. ''The improvement in maternal and child healthcare being claimed in the report should force us to look deeper and focus on measuirng the number of women who survive the delivery and post delivery period, as these would give us accurate measures of success,'' said IS Pal, former DG, Health and Family Welfare. The Uttarakhand government has been crediting the 108 emergency ambulance services that has made possible institutional deliveries and the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), or safe motherhood cash incentives scheme in which women are encouraged to give births in health facilities. ''These figures may not be accurate as lack of facilites in the hills continue to be a problem. There is a tendency to shirk serious cases as doctors fear taking risk due to lack of facilities,'' said Archana Srivistav, CMS, Doon Female Hospital. The new survey examined 284 districts of Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Chattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Bihar and Assam, which together constitute 50 per cent of India's population. The survey field work was done between Nov 2011 and April 2012 and covered a representative sample of 20.61 million.
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DM tells ambulance service, docs to cut time in reaching patients
Dehradun, May 17 He stressed on the need of a paramedical staff such as police personnel with the team of emergency service. He said he would talk to the SSP about it. He instructed the Chief Medical Superintendent, Doon Hospital, RS Aswal, to provide first aid immediately to the patients brought through emergency ambulances in the hospitals in the minimum time possible. He also directed him to start another emergency room in Doon Hospital so that the patients related to emergency service could be provided urgent medical attention. District convener of 108 emergency service Arvind Sharma apprised him about getting 3012 emergency calls in the month of April. These included 653 calls related to baby-delivery cases, where children were born in the ambulance van itself in 11 cases. Other calls were received regarding road accidents and 94 for other accidents, 276 for acute abdomen and 57 for heart problems. A total 709 calls were received regarding health problems. In the meeting BS Jagpangi, R Gupta, Sushil Thapliya and CO, Sadar, Jaya Baloni, were present.
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Haridwar MC begins removing illegal hoardings
Haridwar, May 17 Illegal hoarding can be seen at Har-ki-Pauri, Chandi Ghat stretch, Upper Road, Devpura, Rishikul, Old Ranipur, Tibdi stretch, Chandracharya Chowk, Shankar Ashram, Arya Nagar, Jwalapur, Pull Jatwada and even at inner streets. These marred the beauty of the city, besides causing revenue loss to the MC. Mayor Manoj Garg said illegal hoardings were being removed to make the city look cleaner and legal action would be taken against the offenders if they again put up hoardings without the MC permission. Chief Town Executive Officer, Municipal Corporation, Harshwardhan Mishra said illegal hoardings had been removed in the past also but this time with the MC Board in place, the drive would stop only after every illegal hoarding had been removed. He added that the MC was suffering a huge loss of revenue due to illegal hoarding put up by advertising agencies.
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MC employee’s house gutted
Mussoorie, May 17 According to an eyewitness, the fire was apparently triggered by an electric short-circuit and it soon spread and engulfed the house. The owner of the house, Sushila Devi, is a MC employee. She had left for office around 10 am when the incident occurred. Local residents seeing smoke emanating from the house gathered there and doused the fire with the help of 10 fire extinguishers. Otherwise, it could have spread to the adjacent petrol station and caused loss of lives and enormous damage to property. Sushila said she lost all her life savings and belongings in the fire. MC president Manmohan Singh Mall said it was an unfortunate incident and he had directed the council officials to provide her with bedding, a quilt and blankets as temporary relief. Shopkeepers of the area commended the efforts of Ashfaq, an employee of the adjacent petrol pump, and passerby Naushad for dousing the fire with the help of the fire extinguishers kept at two nearby petrol stations. The shopkeepers were irked at the delay in the arrival of fire engines. They said the fire station is situated about 2 km from the house but the fire engines took one hour in reaching the place and by that time the locals had doused the fire. Had the locals not did their bit in extinguishing the fire, it would have spread to two nearby petrol stations and caused huge damage to property and loss of lives. They demanded a thorough inquiry into the incident. Meanwhile, the firemen said they were caught in a traffic jam on the Library-Kingcraig Road and hence arrived
late at the house.
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Tibetans express solidarity with Panchen Lama
Dehradun, May 17 Mayor of Dehradun Vinod Chamoli was the chief guest on the occasion. He said it was unfortunate that the Chinese authorities continue to deny freedom to the Tibetans. “The experience of both Tibet and India has shown that it is difficult to trust China. But I am confident that the peaceful movement of Tibetans will pave the way for the release of Panchen Lama,” he added.
Tsering Dhonden, president of the Regional Tibetan Women’s Association, said Panchen Lama’s disappearance was an example of contempt shown by the Chinese government to the religious freedom of Tibetans and disregard of international commitments. “Even 18 years after the disappearance of Panchem Gendum Choekyi
Nyima, the belief of the Tibetan people in the Panchen Lama is still as strong as ever,” she said. After the meeting, the Tibetans held a march around the city. Meanwhile, minutes before Chamoli was to leave the meeting venue, ARTO Arvind Pandey arrived there. He challaned the Mayor’s official vehicle parked in the middle of the road. This attracted shutter bugs, who gathered around the car. Hearing the noise, Chamoli too came out. Chamoli rebuffed the official and told him not to make a spectacle on the road and meet him in his office. This forced the officer to sing a different tune.
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Aarti at Brahamkund on Ganga Saptami draws thousands
Haridwar, May 17 Teerth purohits, pundits and saints offered rituals at Ganga ghats. Royal processions depicting Ganga's history and mythological tales passed through city roads. Ganga aarti at Brahamkund, Har-ki-Pauri, drew thousands of
people. A special bhajan evening was organised by the Jayoti Dharam Chetna Trust at Vishnu ghat. Several organisations and activists shed light on the Ganga getting polluted day by day. Bhagirathi Sewa Samiti activist Sanjay Chopra said crores were being spent in the name of Ganga cleaning, but nothing was happening in
reality. Union Minister For Water Resources Harish Rawat said the Central Government was serious over the Ganga cleaning issue and had sought cooperation from the respective state governments through which the Ganga
passed.
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Plan of Rs 16.14 crore approved for police modernisation
Dehradun, May 17 The meeting decided that Rs.10.43 crore would be for plan expenditure and Rs 5.68 for non-plan expenditure. A building for homeguards would be constructed. Vehicles, weapons and special branch would be under non-plan. Out of Rs.10.43 crore, type 2 quarters will be built in Dehradun range, Pauri range and Nainital Range. An amount of Rs 3 crore will be spent on infrastructure facilities for training, Rs. 40 lakh will be spent on a non-residential homeguards building, Rs 57 lakh on weapons, Rs 81 lakh on equipment, Rs 53 lakh on communication equipment, Rs.1.32 crore on Special Task Force and Rs.17 lakh on security
equipment. Uttarakhand Director General of Police Satyavrat Bansal, PS (Home) Om
Prakash, Additional Director General of Police Anil Raturi, Additional Secretary (Home)
M.K. Joshi and Joint secretary (Home) J.P. Joshi were present on the occasion.
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Kandali residents demand park on encroached land
Dehradun, May 17 The residents alleged that an outsider occupied land near the bridge in their area and constructed a big hut of brick. He also brought cows and buffaloes there. Despite complaints to the police in this regard, nothing was done.
Urmila Tripathi, a resident, said once the residents had broke down the hut, but he again occupied the land, allegedly with the connivance of the police. She said the area did not have a single park. This piece of land which had been encroached upon could be made into a park. This would check the menace of encroachment and give a place for children as well as senior citizens for recreation in the area, she
said. Chamoli has directed to the station police officer of the area to look into the matter. He said if the land became available, he would consider the proposal of building a park there.
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Tussle among parties over burial grounds for Muslims
Dehradun, May 17 Vice-president of Congress Suryakant Dhasmana had recently taken a delegation of Muslim political and religious leaders to the Chief Minister and appealed for land for the burial ground. The Chief Minister ordered the District Magistrate to identify such land in the city. The BJP again tried to score over Congress by demanding three more burial grounds for Muslim community and also four
for Hindus.
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Mayor challaned for carrying red light on official car
Dehradun May 17 He said: '' Congress deliberately sent the ARTO on such an occasion to humiliate me. Issuing challan is not a big issue but the way officer talked to a public representative like me is quite insulting and reflects on the functioning of the state government.'' He said the government should also clear guidelines
on the issue.
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Chief Secy wants simplified financial procedures
Dehradun, May 17 The Chief Secretary said Information Technology should be used to make financial procedures transparent. He said resources should be found to increase revenue. Targets should be fixed in tax and non-tax heads and the Commissioner and District Magistrates should be made accountable.
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Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education Director General VK Bahuguna today released a book entitled ''Forest Types of India: Revisited'' at the convocation hall of
ICFRE.
Haridwar, May 17
Ganga ghats today reverberated with the chants of 'Har Har Gangey', and 'Jai Ganga
Maa' as devotees took a holy dip in the river and performed rituals on occasion of Ganga Saptami today. Various religious processions were
also organised. It is mentioned in several Hindu scriptures that the Ganga had descended on the earth on the seventh day of Shukla Paksha in Vaisakh month.
