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Ambika Soni in Doon to oversee rescue work
Central docs look up victims
Rain affects power supply in city
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All-religion prayers held for Kedarnath victims
Dept sends feed, fodder for stranded livestock
Second phase of Chakrata Road widening begins
DM holds meeting to assess damage caused due to rain
Lal elected chief of sanitary workers' body
Ramdev to open orphanage for disaster victims
Red cross to provide water purifiers in affected areas
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Ambika Soni in Doon to oversee rescue work
Dehradun, June 30 Ambika Soni arrived at Jolly Grant Airport in the morning. She expressed concern at the loss of lives and property in the disaster. She said she would be meeting party legislators and other senior party leaders during her two-day stay. Later, she attended a meeting of senior party leaders in which Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna, Union Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat and all party MPs participated. After the meeting, Ambika Soni avoided controversial questions and said she would be meeting the members of the party’s relief committees so that relief and rehabilitation efforts could be coordinated in a better way.
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Central docs look up victims
Dehradun, June 30 It consists of the Director, Emergency Medical Response, Director, National Centre for Disease Control and Joint Director, National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme (NVBDCP). The Director General, Health Services and Additional Secretary (health) have visited Dehradun and have interacted with the senior state government functionaries to review the health situation. Three central public health teams have been posted to Uttarakhand and are deployed in the affected areas of Chamoli and Joshimath. A three-member public health team from AIIH&PH, Kolkata will arrive on Sunday . The first of three-member teams from NIMHANS, Bangalore for psycho-social support is deployed in the affected areas, and is proceeding to Joshimath in continuation of their field visits. The remaining teams are on route to join them. Three teams of specialists clinicians from Central Government Hospitals have been deployed to assist the Uttarakhand government. They consists of two cardiologists, two medicine specialists and two psychiatrists. Three truck loads of medicines from central hospitals have been dispatched and received by the state health authorities. 10 lakh chlorine tablets have been purchased for distribution to the affected areas of the state as per their request.
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Rain affects power supply in city
Dehradun, June 30 According to sources, trees fell down on the power lines in many pockets of the city . Three trees also fell down on low tension line in Dalanwala and Araghar. Areas towards Raipur such as Sahasdhara Road, IT Park and Doordarshan Kendra have got affected. Many electrical poles have fell down in Ladpur and Okhla. Similarly areas around Bindal Pull,Tilak Road, Vijay Colony and Dandi around Garhi Cantt have also faced power crisis. Owing to torrential rain, which continued only for 15 minutes, Bindal and Rispana river swelled upward. Owing to this, the slum colonies situated around it have become susceptible once again. The colonies around Rispana such as MDDA Colony, Chakshah Nagar, Ajabpur, situated around Dalanwala and Vidhan Sabha areas are in danger now. Residents of these colonies are already facing the risk as embankment toward their houses swept away in earlier rain this month. Brahampuri, Sattowali Ghati and Govindgarh are also vulnerable.
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All-religion prayers held for Kedarnath victims
Dehradun, June 30 Tributes were also paid to the jawans of the Air Force, the National Disaster Relief Force, the ITBP and state policemen, who died saving the Kedarnath pilgrims. Maj-Gen SR Bahuguna (retd), Brig KG Behl (retd), founder and president of Marshall School Society GC Juyal, environmentalist Anil Joshi and poet Atul Sharma, besides the school staff paid floral tributes to the people who lost their lives in the tragedy and also prayed for the speedy recovery of the victims. On the occasion, the Marshall School management announced that it would adopt two primary and secondary schools devastated in the Kedarnath valley and work for their reconstruction and upkeep.
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Dept sends feed, fodder for stranded livestock
Dehradun, June 30 Director of the department Kamal Mehrotra said 161quintals of feed and fodder was dropped at various places in Chamoli. Hundred urea molasses lick blocks had been sent to Uttarkashi. The Army’s Remount Veterinary Corps has also provided five trucks of baled oat hay and 10 tonnes of crushed oats. Medicines, vaccines, disinfectants and other material needed for the treatment of sick and injured animals have been dispatched to the affected districts. Efforts are being made to minimise the chances of the spread of disease by disinfection for which 15 quintals of lime, 15
quintals of common salt, 1,000 litre of phenyl and 500 face masks have been sent. Besides this, two units of the Army’s Remount Veterinary Corpse are also providing therapeutic and other animal health services at Joshimath and Gobind Ghat to the equines stranded there.
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Second phase of Chakrata Road widening begins
Dehradun, June 30 The 100-m-long road would be widened up to 75 ft towards Bindalpul. A stretch of 400 m has already been widened. Executive Engineer (PWD) CM Pandey said the Rs 2.5-crore project would be completed by
December. Under the second phase, no shop would be dismantled. The first phase was carried out in December last year. At that time, shops from Clock Tower to Prabhat Cinema were dismantled. However, the PWD team did not face any opposition by shopkeepers and the owners of the cinemas yesterday. Chakrata Road is quite important as it leads to Vikasnagar, Chakrata and Paonta Sahib. Due to the lack of space for parking, people used to park their vehicles on the roadside, leading to huge traffic jams.
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DM holds meeting to assess damage caused due to rain
Dehradun, June 30 The DM directed officials to provide him all details with regard to losses incurred due to heavy rains in the district. He instructed them to extend all possible help in the affected areas and visit there personally to listen to the grievances of the public. He warned officials that no lackadaisical attitude would be tolerated and instructed them to work in close coordination with other departments. He directed DMC officials to get blocked drains cleaned through JCBs. The DM instructed officials to provide the details of losses to projects being undertaken by the respective departments.
— TNS
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Gen Rajan Bakshi to take over as GOC-in-C today
Dehradun, June 30 He will take over the charge from Lt-Gen
Anil Chait. Lieutenant-General Bakhshi was commissioned into 17 Horse on December 21, 1975. He is an alumnus of St Xavier’s High School, Delhi, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, and a graduate of Defence Services Staff College, Wellington. Lieutenant-General Bakhshi has had an extensive operational experience in varied appointments
in all kinds of terrain configurations. He has served in all the Strike Corps of the Indian Army. The General Officer commanded an Armoured Regiment and an Armoured Brigade as part of an elite Armoured Division on the Western Front. He commanded the Infantry Division in the Western Theatre and a Corps in the High Altitude Area, which includes the highest battlefield
in the world. He also has had the experience of serving as a Logistics Staff Officer of a Mountain Brigade deployed in the High Altitude Area, Brigade Major of an Armoured Brigade and Colonel General Staff of elite Armoured Division during Operation Parakaram. He has also held Senior Staff Appointments at the Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence, besides serving on instructional assignments at the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, and the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.
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Lal elected chief of sanitary workers' body
Dehradun, June 30 The elections of the association were held after a gap of seven years yesterday. Madan Lal defeated his rival Rajesh by a margin of 12 votes while Gagat beat Inder Singh with 50 votes. The polling began in the morning and ended at 4 pm. The results were declared at 7 pm. Madan Lal thanked the voters for reposing in him. He said he would take up the issues of the regularisation of the services of daily wage sanitation workers, employment to the dependent of those who died while serving, insurance benefits, land to build houses and a hike in wages on a priority basis. Menu Gagat also assured daily wagers of taking up their problems with top officials and get them solved at the earliest. Earlier, the elections of the body had been put off for one reason or the other. According to the rules, the elections should have been held once in two years. However, with the intervention of the vice-president of state Congress Suryakant Dhasmana, the election date was finalised.
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Activity week concludes in Hampton Court School
Mussoorie, June 30 Ashmit Singh and Kunal Raawt were adjudged winners jointly, while in LKG Ashmit Panwar was adjudged the winner. Around 200 students from class VIII to XII were given different set of activities under the theme ”Kaleidoscope”. The students showcased their talent in mask
making, mehndi (henna) application, flower arrangement, collage, poster making and gift wrapping. Shruti Baloni, Himanshu Kharola,
Sonam Goyal, Suhail Khan, Fazal, Rachna Rawat, Divyansh Dwivedi, Kushboo Negi, Suneha Thakur, Sonam Goyal, Nikita Tiwari were declared winners in their field of activity. Principal Sr Lucy D’souza distributed the prizes and the citations to the winning students.
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Ramdev to open orphanage for disaster victims
Haridwar, June 30 Ramdev also held a discussion with Shankaracharya Swaroopanand Saraswati on the ways to help the disaster-affected people. On mass cremation of disaster victims, Ramdev said without proper rituals, the state government should not have carried out the last rites of the victims. Meanwhile, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has also objected to the mass cremation in the Kedarnath area. The VHP is also holding talks with saints over the Kedarnath shrine renovation issue.
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Red cross to provide water purifiers in affected areas
Dehradun, June 30 "It is a challenge to provide pure drinking water to the affected people of the state. The purifiers will be placed at the areas decided by the government," said Dr JP Agarwal, secretary-general, Indian Red Cross Society. He said it would help prevent water-borne disease. "These water purifiers were also used during the earthquake in Ladakh and Sikkim," said Dr Agarwal. The Indian Red Cross Society is actively undertaking relief and rehabilitation with its state branch in Uttarakhand. "As many as 200 medical responders are already engaged in relief operations and are providing psycho-social support, first aid and navigation to the stranded persons and locals," said Dr IS Pal, secretary, Red Cross, Uttarakhand. The Uttarakhand Chapter of Red Cross has already dispatched 17 trucks carrying relief material for the affected people in Uttarkashi and Rudraprayag and 1,100 body bags have been handed over to the SSP, Dehradun.
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