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Students’ Poll 2013
34 file nominations for union elections in |
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Migration from disaster-hit districts cause for concern
SIDCUL employees start agitation
Former legislator Ambrish Kumar addresses agitating workers of SIDCUL at Roshanabad in Haridwar on Saturday. Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaur
Under-19 boys’ football tournament kicks off
Rotary Club organises installation ceremony
Class IV staff want higher grades
Delegates of fourth grade state employees attend a one-day convention at Rishikul Ayurvedic College in Haridwar on Saturday. Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaur
Students of Army Public School receive the winning trophy in the Inter-School Living Science Quiz-2013, held at The Indian Academy on Saturday. A Tribune photo
Mussoorie Public, Cambrian Schools to clash for title
Welham Girls’ School (Blue) and Modern School enter finals
A match during the Seventh Welham Girls’ School Golden Jubilee All India Basketball Tournament being played at the Welham Girls’ School in Dehradun on Saturday. Tribune photo: Vinod Pundir
Car falls into deep gorge, four injured
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Students lathi-charged as groups clash over filing papers
Tribune News Service
Dehradun, August 31 The matter started when one independent candidate, Deepak, allegedly tore the nomination form of a Student Federation of India (SFI) candidate whose name is also Deepak. The bone of contention was the same name of the two contestants who wanted that one of them should withdraw his nomination to minimise confusion among the voters. Supporters of both groups started fighting over the issue and the police had to resort lathi charge to defuse the tension. Major students' unions have fielded dummy candidates on various positions of the unions this year, which is becoming a cause of rift among them.
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34 file nominations for union elections in DAV College
Dehradun, August 31 The most interesting fight will be witnessed on the post of president where three candidates, namely Siddharth Rana of the ABVP, Bhupendra Negi of the NSUI and Swati Negi, an Independent candidate, will lock horns to head the students’ union for the academic year 2013-14. Swati Negi, who was denied a ticket by the NSUI, also filed her nomination for the post of president as an Independent candidate today. The other two contestants had filed their nominations on the first day itself. For the post of general secretary, Govind Singh belonging to the Pattu Group, Yudhbir Singh Negi from the Satyam group and Jogender Singh from the Aryan group have filed nominations. Four students will contest for the post of joint secretary and eight have filed nomination for the post of university representative (UR). For the post of treasurer, the college has received four nominations while seven nominations have been filed for the post of student representative (SR). Only one nomination has been filed for the post of graduate representative. The polling is scheduled for September 5 and the election results will be declared on September 8.
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Migration from disaster-hit districts cause for concern
Mussoorie, August 31 However, due to the frequent disasters, the big question that still remains unanswered is that they should migrate to which place. Another question that arises due to the distress migration is that once the villagers from the disaster-struck region leave, will they be replaced or the areas would remain empty and for how long? Social activists and the experts on Uttarakhand believe that if the government thinks that construction of tunnels for big dams, commercial mining in the rivers, building multi-storeyed commercial hotels and the imported culture of tourism can sustain the development model, then it is sadly mistaken and would only result in Himalayan Tsunamis of much bigger proportions. One reason for such disaster is attributed to the incessant use of the explosives for road construction and the excess debris from the hydropower projects put into rivers. The felling of trees aggravated the problem. Suresh Bhai, the head of Nadi Bachao Andolan, elaborating further opines:'' Since 2010 the disaster triggered by heavy rains can be attributed to the unwarranted and substandard usage of material for the construction of roads, which has spread its tentacles like a spider's web in the hill districts of the state. This has resulted in irreparable damage, forcing people to contemplate migration. The people are still reeling from the cloudburst that occurred in 2012 at Bakaria top in Uttarkashi district, which triggered the flash floods and forced the two power projects, Maneri Bhali phase I and II to open its gates downstream, resulting in damage to property to the tune to several crores but no lessons were learnt by the incident back then. The fallout of the neglect was the devastation that occurred once again in the month of June 2013 to the areas such as Chinyali Saur, Bhatwari, Dunda etc. Presently the roads leading Uttarkashi have been rendered inaccessible and all vehicular movement has come to a standstill, forcing the villagers to use mules as the only option, but hiring the mule service also comes at a huge price, which the villagers find difficult to pay, said Suresh. He further said that already the geographical status of the villages in Uttarkashi district, namely Uttraon, Dadalka, Chieva, Rawada, Agoda, Bhankoli, Gajoli, Nugaon, Gangori etc has changed to alarming proportions due to the flood that was witnessed in Asi Ganga river in 2012. Several hectares of land, including irrigated fields, was converted into heaps of mud debris due to the disaster here. The road to Sangam Chatti and Dodital which saw heavy influx of adventure tourists in the past has remained closed since the recent disaster of 16-17 June 2013.The decision of the government of allowing no construction around 200 metres of the rivers has created more confusion and left such people with only option of migrating from here. Several suggestions are being put forth, such as, instead of constructing roads, trying tunnel building as an option but the residents here are skeptic to such ideas as the tunnel built at Tambakhani in Uttarkashi which gets affected due to mudslide instils fear in them. The experts believe that the hill districts can only be saved by creating strong embankments on the rivers, banning of commercial mining, saving the rivers from dumping of the unwanted materials, prohibiting widening of the roads and installing recycling and treatment plants.
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SIDCUL employees start agitation
Haridwar, August 31 In view of the strike, heavy deployment of police personnel was done at the factory. SIDCUL police post in-charge Manoj Mainwal said the police force was deployed in view of the strike as hundreds of workers agitated at the factory. While, the company management refuted the claims of the agitating workers. They said due to one factory worker, who was served notice regarding non submission of full documents, was behind the agitation. A company official said the worker who was served the notice, misguided the other fellow workers. He falsely claimed that he was removed from the company, without any cause. "The worker has only been served a notice to submit all the educational documents to the HR, which he has not done since 2008. We suspect that he has forged documents because of which he is delaying the process," the official added. Meanwhile, former legislator Ambrish Kumar, who is also the founder of social outfit Rashtriya Krantikari Manch, visited the factory and addressed the agitating workers today. Ambrish said the SIDCUL based companies have been exploiting the interests of the workers and were not giving them proper salary and other remunerations. He also alleged that despite 70 per cent reservation for the local Uttarakhand denizens in SIDCUL based companies, not a single company out of 100 in Haridwar were implying this provision. Labour cell central chief of Uttarakhand Kranti
Dal Uday Ram Semwal also sought immediate intervention from labour secretary of the state
government.
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Under-19 boys’ football tournament kicks off
Dehradun, August 31 In the ground 1, the first match between KV Kashipur and KV Haldwani ended in a draw with both the team scoring one goal each. In the second match, KV FRI defeated KV OFD by 2-0 score with Vivek Rana and Ankit scoring the goals at the 6th and the 50th minute. KV Birpur won the match with 9-0 score over KV New Tehri with Shubham scoring 6 goals in the match. KV Upper Camp defeated KV Pithoragarh by 3-0 score. Whereas, KV Banbasa defeated KV Haldwani by 2-0 score. In another league match, KV Birpur won its match against KV Kashipur by 1-0 score. In the group 2, KV Roorkee won its maiden match against KV BHEL by a margin of 5-0 and KV IIP defeated KV ONGC by 4-0 score. The match between KV Ranikhet and KV Uttarkashi remained a close contest with Ranikhet winning in the end by 1-0 score. In its first match, KV IMA drew the game against KV Raiwala. Whereas, KV Roorkee won its second match after defeating KV Hathibarkala. In another match played in the group B, KV BHEL defeated KV Uttarkashi by 2-1 score.
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Rotary Club organises installation ceremony
Dehradun, August 31 Each year, the Interact Clubs complete at least two community service projects. The Rotary Club had already sponsored eight Interact Clubs in city's Doon School, Doon International School, Doon Global School, Brooklyn School, Hilton School, Presidency International School, Aryan School and Indian Cambridge School. The ceremony started with the welcome address by president Gaurav Deep Singh. He spoke about the Rotary Club and the aim of the club which was to work toward humanity. He also introduced the students about the Interact Club and wished them luck for their future projects. A joint installation ceremony of all the schools was done by inviting the teacher in-charge. A momento and interact handbook were given them. All the presidents of the clubs introduced their board and presented the activities undertaken. A key note address was delivered by Madhukar Malhotra. He spoke about rotary and effective running of the club. He also appreciated their efforts to serve the community. The closing speech was given by Rakesh Agarwal followed by a vote of thanks by secretary Sumit Nanda.
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Class IV staff want higher grades
Dehradun, August 31 The employees demanded instant implementation of the government notification regarding higher grades for all class IV employees in the state as of from January 1, 2006. General secretary of the union Dinesh Lakheda said that the government seems to be biased when it comes to low grade employees. He added that despite the state government boasting of concern towards class IV employees, they are perturbed with the delay in getting benefits from the government notification. ''We need to be treated equally as other employees by the government. Fourth grade employees are the pillars of any department ,yet they are neglected and not provided with basic amenities and facilities,'' said Girish Rawat, district chief of the union. Union leaders JN Pant, Ramesh Dubey, Aman Singh, Dev Anand, Rafik Ahmed, Manoj Kumar and Rekh Bahadur also expressed resentment over the state government's biased attitude towards lower grade
employees. — TNS
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Army School wins science quiz
Dehradun, August 31 Questions were asked from areas like environment, science and technology and general awareness. All the teams were well prepared and performing brilliantly amidst cut-throat competition. After the preliminary round, six teams made it to the main rounds of the quiz. In the end, The Army School proved to be superior to other teams and gained the maximum points during the quiz. RIMC Dehradun was on second position and The Indian Academy took the third spot. The winners were given awards by the Principal of The Indian Academy, Neelam Sharma.
— TNS
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Mussoorie Public, Cambrian Schools to clash for title
Dehradun, August 31 In the first close fought semifinal match, Cambrian Hall defeated Sangam Public School in the tiebreaker. During the normal 90 minutes of the play, both teams could not score any goal and the match was decided through tiebreaker. Cambrian Hall won the tiebreaker by 4-3 score. Mussoorie Public School won its semifinal match with a 1-0 win over Doon Valley Public School. In the 5th minute of the game, Shubham Bist of Mussoorie Public School scored the goal, which proved to be winning goal in the end. The final match will be played at Carman School
on Monday.
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Welham Girls’ School (Blue) and Modern School enter finals
Dehradun, August 31 Modern School, New Delhi, made it to the finals after defeating Mayo College Girls School in the semifinal match. Modern School won the match by 71-37 score in its
favour. Modern School's Madhu scored maximum individual 20 points in the match. The final match will be played on Sunday at Welham Girls School.
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Haridwar, August 31
A one-day convention of the Uttarakhand Chaturtha Vargiya Rajya Karamchari Maha Sangh was held here today at Rishikul Ayurvedic College. Employees associated with the association hailing from their respective departments participated in the convention.
The Army Public School quiz team won the Inter-School Living Science Quiz-2013 held at The Indian Academy here today. In all, 30 schools from
Dehradun, Mussoorie and Vikasnagar participated in the quiz competition. Questions were asked from areas like environment, science and technology and general awareness.
Welham Girls’ School (Blue) and Modern School have entered into the finals of the ongoing All-India Basketball Tournament at Welham Girls School. In the first semifinal match, Welham Girls’ School (Blue) defeated Welham Girls’ School (White) by 40-16 score. Ridhima of Welham Girls’ (Blue) remained the highest scorer after scoring 12 points in the match.
