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Continuous heavy rain batters Doon
DM Purushottam opens disaster management control room
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Badminton umpire Jagjeet Singh aims for the Guinness
Ashok Bajpai overall winner of golf tourney
Dehradun hospital uses bio-absorbable stents
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Continuous heavy rain batters Doon
Dehradun, June 16 Fourteen families from Satto Wali Ghati have been shifted to a government premises. An alert has been sounded in slum colonies situated near the Bindal, Rispana and Song rivers. Slum dwellers have been asked to vacate their houses and shift to the premises provided by the administration. A police force, along with the PAC, has been deputed to assist in rescue operations. MLA from Rajpur Road Rajkumar, along with Additional District Magistrate Jharna Kamthan, visited his constituency today. Since many embankments have flooded, he gave an estimate for the construction of new embankments as well as the repair of houses damaged due to incessant rain. The localities that are the worst hit in the Rajpur constituency are Guru Tegh Bahadur Road, Balbir Road, Purn Balmiki Basti, Nai Basti, Nimi Road, Mahatma Gandhi Basti, Nai Basti, Rajesh Rawat Colony, Karan Pur, DL Road, Arya Nagar, Bhagat Singh, Shanti Vihar, Indira colony, Chukku Mohalla and Kanwali Road. Rainwater entered 20 houses when a vacant plot adjacent to Himani Gas Godown overflowed. Besides this, areas around the ISBT and Claimontown are also waterlogged. Cars, autos and two-wheelers could be seen partially submerged. Gandhi Gram, JMS Road, Saraswati Vhar, Panditwadi, Gobindgarh, Teachers’ colony and Yamuna Colony are also the worst hit. MLA (cantonment) Harbans Kapoor, along with higher officials of the district administration, also visited his constituency today. MLA from Mussoorie Ganesh Joshi took stock of the situation. He said some houses in Rajender Nagar, Dhani Gaon, Bapusar, Badri and Suman Nagar in his constituency swept away. He demanded a hike in the fund released for the naturaldisaster-hit victims and said the amount should be distributed among the victims without any delay.
Wreaking havoc
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DM Purushottam opens disaster management control room
Dehradun, June 16 The administrative officials will not be sanctioned any leave in the next four days. All the officials have been directed to remain alert in their respective areas to deal with any casualty triggered by rain. The DC said the officials sitting in the control room were being informed about the accidents taking place anywhere in the district. A medical team had also been engaged in the operations. The DM inspected the waterlogged areas today. He visited Ogle Bhatta and Dharawali and took note of the complaints of the residents. He directed PWD engineers to ensure that factory owners in the area did not release water from their buildings into the residential colonies. He also visited the Bindal and Rispana rivers, where he instructed around 240 families living close to the banks of the Bindal to vacate the area and shift to a makeshift complex. He also directed the SDM to evacuate 19 families around the Rispana river and provide them temporary lodging and food at the THDC, Kedarpuram. He directed the SDM, Mussoorie, to shift 250 affected families to a gurdwara. According to reports issued by the district administration, a wall of Carman School in Prem Nagar Thakurpur fell down, which led to waterlogging in Thakurpur village. Finally, a fire brigade team pumped out the water. The police installed barricades around a road, which caved in at the Lensdowne crossing. A road near the Rispana bridge was damaged and directions have been given to stop traffic on the road. An electric poll fell down on the DL road. A house collapsed at New Patel Nagar. The Gumaniwala, Hira Nagar and Pragati Vihar areas were waterlogged. The Bhattowala bridge got swept away. The SDM, Vikas Nagar, said the water table of the Sorna river in the area had risen, which had posed danger to the hydro-power dams. The Irrigation Department had been informed about the lurking danger, he said. According to reports, houses collapsed in Gobindgarh Azad colony and Gram Nalapani. The Fire Department and the Civil Defence are engaged in rescue operations in the area. mSome 50 families have been ordered to vacate houses in wake of impending flood in the area due to water tables rising up in the Selaqui Jamnipur Canal. The SDM has been directed to provide alternate arrangements for the affected families.
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Badminton umpire Jagjeet Singh aims for the Guinness
Jagjeet Singh was in Dehradun today as part of a research initiative to tap badminton potential in the region. Talking to The Tribune, he shared the events of his life and how he became a national badminton umpire after starting his career as badminton player. He was born on February 1, 1942. Jagjeet Singh Arneja's family belongs to Sriganganagar in Rajasthan. He was classmate of the famous late ghazal singer Jagjit Singh. Arneja started playing badminton at the age of 11. He got all support from his elder brother, who worked in Delhi at that time. After playing the game at the school and college levels, he became Rajasthan University champion in 1964. He subsequently participated in various national-level badminton championships. Jagjeet Singh started umpiring in 1982 at the district level. He rose to State Umpire level in 1988, when he umpired the Kota State Badminton Championship. In 1992, he umpired the National Badminton Championship, Calicut, and since then, has been umpiring national and international events. Jagjeet Singh Arneja was in Senior Technical Empire Panel in the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games in the discipline of badminton. Jagjeet Singh Arneja remembers the 1994 Senior National Badminton Championship quarterfinal match between two greats -- Gopichand and Rajeev Bagga. “I had to issue a warning to Gopichand in that match due to his erroneous behaviour in court,” Arneja recollected. Today, a veteran player himself in the 65-plus category, Jagjeet Singh Arneja grooms youngsters in the game. He runs a badminton academy at Rohini Sports Complex, where children from the age group of 5 to 15 years to learn the game. Jagjeet Singh is no ordinary coach. He has to his credit the coaching of Gopichand and his wife PV Lakshmi, both acclaimed former badminton players. Sudhan Padmanabham, Madhumita Bisht and Jwala Gutta are some of the other top badminton players coached by him. Jagjeet Singh Arneja wants his family to carry on the association with badminton. His son Hargurpreet Singh has been a national player of India. Now, Jagjeet is trying to groom his four-year granddaughter Asees. Regarding the badminton scenario in the country, he said India needed to focus more on this sport and go in for the Gurukul system to tap talent. His said catching them young and providing them the best of coaching and other infrastructure were the basic reasons behind the emergence of China in badminton. He said India needed to emulate China in this respect.
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Ashok Bajpai overall winner of golf tourney
Among the women, Dr Chanchal Gupta won the first prize and Simran Bajaj was second. In the Junior Best category, Samarth Jain was first and Krishna Srivastav second. In the Super Senior category, Harinder Singh was first and 71-year-old Col F.K.Jagota (retd) was second. Nusrat Abbasi was the overall net winner and group captain Ashok Bajpai the overall net runner-up. Maximum birdies prize went to Nusrat Abbasi and longest drive to Varun K. Srivastav. The Governor congratulated the winners and participants and said that they were like the brand ambassadors of the Raj Bhavan Golf Course who would tell the others about its excellence.
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Inter-Zonal National Cricket TournEY for Blind
Dehradun, June 16 The final match was not played due to heavy rains and both the teams were declared joint winners. Satyavrat Bansal, Director General of Police, Uttarakhand, gave away the
prizes to the winners and participants at the closing ceremony. The Results 1. Man of the Series (B1 Category): Prakash Gupta, India Red Team 2. Man of the Series (B2/B3 Category): Balmukund, India Blue Team 3. Best Bowler: Vineet Kumar, India Red Team 4. Best Fielder: Ankush, India Blue Team 5. Best Batsman: Prabhu Dayal, India Blue Team Manvendra Singh Patwal, secretary general of
the Blind Cricket Association, proposed the vote of thanks.
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Paramedical workers' welfare society holds convention
Dehradun, June 16 He said the role of paramedical workers in providing health services to people was immense. Dhasmana also assured them that he would take up their concerns with the state government. Earlier, Arun Negi, state president, Uttarakhand Paramedical Workers Welfare Society, put forward the concerns of paramedical workers of the state. He said the government must immediately start enrolling paramedical workers in the State Paramedical Council. He also demanded action against non-recognised paramedical institutions in the state. A memorandum of demands was also submitted to Dhasmana. Bhanu Pratap Chauhan, general secretary, Uttarakhand Paramedical Workers Welfare Society, also addressed the convention. Treasurer Vinod Thapliyal, Sunil Raturi, Kesar Singh Rawat, Lakshman Singh Negi and Alok Jugran were also present on the occasion.
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Students undertake expedition to Dhumdar Kandi Pass
Dehradun, June 16 The team scaled the Dhumdar Kandi Pass on June 9 and returned on June 12, Dr Arvaindanabha Shukla, in charge of the expedition, said. James Baile Frazer was the first to know about the existence of the Pass in 1815 when he learnt that the locals used the Pass as a shortcut from Bhagirathi valley to Rawain valley and vice versa. The other who participated in the expedition included Shrey Nagalia, Harsh Bansal, Jorawar Singh, Amartya Bhowmick, Pram Deep Singh, Pallavi Shukla, Mannu Mehrotra, Amaan Kazmi and Harshvardhan Singh.
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Veena Joshi’s collection of poems released
Dehradun, June 16 Dr RBS Rawat, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Uttarakhand, also addressed the gathering. Eminent literary personalities Suniti Rawat and Dr Basanti Mathpal spoke about Joshi’s poems on the occasion. Those who were present on the occasion included Basanti Bisht and Deepak Jyoti Ghildhiyal.
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Dehradun hospital uses bio-absorbable stents
Dehradun, June 16 “The bio-absorbable stents make blocked artery functional and then disappear. While with metallic stents, there is always a fear of clotting in case the stent suddenly gets blocked,” said Dr Yogender Singh, a cardiologist at the hospital. Dr Singh told mediapersons here today that bio-absorbable stent was made of poly-lactic acid whereas metallic stent was either made of cadmium or other metal. Though the cost of the stent is now pegged at Rs 2.5 lakh, the price is expected to come down in near future. As of now, the stent is being made available by a US-based company.
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Dehradun, June 16
Dehradun, June 16