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Army says no to SAIL steel plant in Kangra
Cong misled on industrial package: BJP
Gujarat growth model a farce: Anand Sharma
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Kangra bank polls: Congress invades Dhumal’s bastion
As rupee falls, pharma firms’ import cost goes up
Adopt agriculture, horticulture as profession, farmers told
Decision to rationalise govt staff hailed
Sukhu seeks foreign trade institute for state
Cong leaders sheltering mining mafia: Satti
Gaddi leaders seek BJP ticket from Kangra
BJP blames Cong for inflation, unemployment
‘Government committed to welfare of freedom fighters’
Sudhir listens to people’s grievances
Dogra is chairman of Bar Council
PK Dhumal misleading people: Cong
Pensioners of HPRTC stage protest
Government to spend Rs 3,836 crore on education
Jukhala valley to have vegetable market
Grandparents’ Day celebrated
Eco-friendly mining policy demanded
Leopard fear grips parts of Bilaspur
Holy mace to reach Manimahesh lake on Sept 12
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Army says no to SAIL steel plant in Kangra
Kandrori (Dharamsala), September 8 Sources said the Army authorities were contending that they had their ordinance depot at Kandrori which was at a striking distance from the steel plant. The plant’s furnace would generate high temperature, which would pose a threat to the ordinance depot. The sources added that the Army had also initiated action against its officials who were posted at Kandrori when the work for the construction of plant was started. The foundation stone of the Kandrori steel plant was laid by former Union Minister for Steel Ram Vilas Paswan in 2009. Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh was instrumental in getting the project sanctioned for the state during his stint as Union Minister. As per the project report, the plant has an installed capacity of one lakh tonnes per annum. Billets to be used as input for the Kandrori plant will be supplied by SAIL’s steel plant in Durgapur. The unit will have a TMT bar mill with 60,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) capacity for TMT bars of eight to 12 mm diameter and 40,000 tpa capacity for sizes 16 to 25 mm. Had the plant become functional, it could have fed the demand of steel in northern states, including Punjab, Himachal and J&K. The plant would also have generated direct and indirect avenues of employment for the local people of Indora. It is also the first SAIL steel plant in the state. In the recent past, Mandi MP Pratibha Singh met Defence Minister AK Antony requesting him to intervene and help in getting the no-objection certificate (NOC) for the steel plant. SAIL officials are lobbying hard to get the clearance for starting the production at the Kandrori plant. State officials are also trying hard to work out a formula that would satisfy the army and also helping in starting the production. The Army authorities, on the other hand, are asking the Kangra Deputy Commissioner to issue a notification banning all kinds of construction in 900-m periphery of the ordinance depot. Local leaders of Indora are, however, said if 900-m ban on construction near the ordinance depot was strictly followed the existence of Pathankot town of Punjab would become illegal. There are many other illegal structures and factories in the area that are functioning without any NOC, locals said. A survey in the area also revealed that besides the steel plant, many other structures were present within the 900-m periphery of the depot. The Army was taking a hard stand on the matter, as the Kandrori plant was also close to the international border with Pakistan. The international border with Pakistan was just about 40 km from Kandrori. Interestingly, the army authorities did not object to the site of the project site in the beginning. Hitting roadblock
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Cong misled on industrial package: BJP
Shimla, September 8 Party spokesperson Ganesh Dutt here today said during the Mandi Lok Sabha byelections Union Commerce Minister, Anand Sharma repeatedly said the package had been approved and only a formal announcement could not be made due to the code of conduct. Now he was saying that his ministry had only made a recommendation to the Union Ministry of Finance for restoring the package. It was obvious that the Congress government had been misleading people of the state. He also condemned the decision to scrap the memorandum of understanding signed between the state and Punjab on the Rs 100-crore ropeway project to connect Anandpur Sahib with the Naina Devi shrine. He said the project was to be implemented in the private public partnership mode and its objective was to boost religious tourism in the two states. He added that the state government made a political decision and not the one based on merit. It had hurt the sentiments of people of the two states and the project would be set back by another 20 years. He urged the government to review its decision and ensure expeditious construction of the much-needed ropeway for the convenience of the pilgrims. |
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Gujarat growth model a farce: Anand Sharma
Taking a dig at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Sharma said he might be an “invaluable asset” for the BJP, but for the nation he was an embarrassment. The ground reality in Gujarat was far from boastful claims of development made by the party. The much-publicised conclaves of Modi, during which tall claims of attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) were made, turned out to be a total farce if one had a cursory look at the data, he added. Out of the total $ 298 billion of FDI attracted by the country, $272 billion was received during the past 10 years and Gujarat accounted for a meagre $8.53 billion. It was at the seventh place in attracting FDI, far behind Maharashtra ($67 billion) and Delhi ($36 billion). In fact, even Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu attracted more FDI than Gujarat, he said. The Union Minister said Gujarat had become the most indebted state with outstanding loan of over Rs 1,92,000 crore, which was more that even Rs 1,30,000 crore debt of Uttar Pradesh. Social indicators were no better with a school dropout rate of 27/1,000, malnutrition at 44/1,000 and majority of rural areas were still without potable water. Taking a potshot at Modi again, he said the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate would have to content by holding a rally on an artificially created set of Red Fort and he would never have an opportunity to address the nation from the ramparts of the historic monument. The reel story would never ever translate into the real story. The parallel function organised by Modi on August 15, only showed his utter disregard for the national day. He had downgraded the level of political discourse to the abysmal depths. He said the Congress did not think much of Modi, as it contested polls on ideological grounds. He said the Congress had elevated Rahul Gandhi as vice-president of the party as he represented the hopes and aspiration of the youth of the country. There was no dearth of leadership in the Congress, as it had an array of senior leaders at the Centre and in the states. |
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Eyeing elections, Youth Cong starts membership drive
Mandi, September 8 Vikramaditya shared the stage with Raghuvir Singh Bali, Youth Congress vice-president, here yesterday. The state Youth Congress has stepped up its membership drive queering pitch for the new state president as the two-year-long term of Youth Congress president Monika Bharti is complete. Vikramaditya’s two-year-long ban imposed by FAME, the election commission of the party, to contest Youth Congress elections, would also end this year, revealed leaders. Vikramaditya has followed in the footsteps of his father launching the membership drive from Mandi, which Virbhadra considers his ‘karambhumi’. This time, Vikramaditya enjoys the support of the present youth leaders as all Youth Congress leaders, including junior Bali, Monika Bharti, four presidents of Mandi, Kangra, Shimla and Hamirpur Lok Sabha viz Sanju Dogra, Aashish Butail, Sanjay Thakur and Baljiner Singh, respectively, were present on the occasion and put up a show of strength to take on the BJP’s Bhartiya Yuva Morcha. The Congress had launched skill development allowance for unemployed youth, given representation to young Congress leaders in boards and corporations and developed mechanism for good and transparent governance, he added. He said the registration process under the skill development allowance had been started. “The government will start anti-drug centres and promote sports and tourism in rural areas to channelise the energy of the youth in a positive way," he added. |
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Kangra bank polls: Congress invades Dhumal’s bastion
Hamirpur, September 8 The Congress-supported candidates were elected to 13 of 16 posts of director yesterday. It is for the first time that two Congress-backed candidates won from Hamirpur district since the bank’s inception. The victory becomes even more so special for the Congress as former Chief Minister PK Dhumal’s influence in Hamirpur district is considered impregnable. Kuldeep Singh Pathania defeated two party rebels and well-entrenched former Chairman of the bank Raseel Singh Mankotia by 20 votes. Mankotia was banking on the support of a large number of herbal societies promoted by him and work done in the cooperative movement, but that did not turn the tide in his favour. Out of total 145 votes polled in the Hamirpur ward, Kuldeep Singh secured 67 votes, Mankotia 45 votes, Manoj Kumar 25 votes and HR Pathania five votes. Similarly, in the Nadaun ward, Congress-supported Atam Prakash secured 88 votes, former Chairman of the bank BR Mandial 33 votes and BJP-backed Jaid Nath 16 votes. The elections to the posts of director of the bank are held indirectly in which secretaries of the cooperative societies participate and the influence of the ruling party also play a role in the final outcome. The victory of former Congress MLA Kuldeep Singh Pathania from the Hamirpur ward, dominated by the BJP with strong Dhumal’s influence, has given a shot in the arm to reestablish his position as a leader in Hamirpur district. |
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No paucity of funds for development: Musafir
Hamirpur, September 8 Chairing a review meeting of development activities in Hamirpur district here on Friday, Musafir said speedy completion of ongoing development projects was important as the public benefited from these projects and the state government was committed to provide better facilities to people. Reviewing the works undertaken under MGNREGA, he said Rs 26 crore was spent on various works under the scheme last year, a total of 83,740 families had been registered under MGNREGA and 10,318 families were given employment. Talking about Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, he said all 229 panchayats in the district had been made free from open defecation and many panchayats had won awards under the scheme. He directed the district administration to complete work on the community health centre at Nadaun and ayurvedic dispensaries at Lamblu and Tal. He told the Hamirpur administration to speedily complete the Hamirpur bypass. Earlier, welcoming him, Hamirpur ADC Himanshu Shekhar Chaudhary said the district had always been one of the leading districts in completing development work. State Planning Board member Kuldeep Pathania was present during the meeting. |
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As rupee falls, pharma firms’ import cost goes up
Solan, September 8 Earlier, the chemicals used in the manufacture of drugs were available in domestic markets at credit of 60 days, but now traders have started demanding advance payments due to the weakening rupee. With the rupee failing to show signs of recovery, the pharmaceutical industry in Himachal, which houses almost 70 per cent of the country’s pharmaceutical industry, is now worried that this will adversely affect the Union government’s new Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) where as many as 348 drugs have been brought under the price control in May. A majority of small-scale pharmaceutical units in the state are being adversely hit by the rupee depreciation, said Vinod Gupta, Co-chairman, Himachal Drug Manufacturers Association (HDMA). He added that about 40 per cent of the manufacturing cost of the finished goods had risen by 10 to 15 per cent and the remaining 60 per cent by 5 to 10 per cent with the raw material price going up by 15 to 20 per cent. Citing examples, he said the cost of some salts used in the manufacture of commonly used antibiotics had gone up by almost 50 per cent in the past two months, thus adding considerably to the manufacturing cost. This scenario would not only make it difficult to manufacture the 348 drugs enlisted under the DPCO, but would gradually lead to the increase in their prices, as the price margins had taken a dip, added Gupta. Finding it difficult to compete with the international markets, a large number of units of domestic manufacturers of raw material have closed down, leading to higher imports. Though the Union government had imposed duties on imports to help the domestic players, this had made the raw material even costlier in the present scenario explained Sanjay Kumar another pharmaceutical investor from Baddi. |
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Community policing being strengthened: DGP
Dharamsala, September 8 The DGP said though the ITBP had been withdrawn from the Chamba district border with Jammu and Kashmir, the region was presently peaceful and there was no threat perception from terrorists. “The state police has been deployed in adequate numbers on the Chamba border. However, if people of the region demand, a request can again be sent to the Union Government to deploy the ITBP here,” he said. The DGP further said the Himachal Pradesh police had the state-specific financial problems. A report had been sent to the 12th Finance Commission for additional finances for redressing the state-specific problems of the Himachal police. He further said the surveillance and cyber cell equipment of the Himachal police was being upgraded to improve the criminal-tracking network. |
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Register cases regarding irregularities, officials told
Chamba, September 8 This was stated by PAC Chairman Ravinder Ravi while presiding over a meeting of district-level officials here today. He exhorted the Excise and Taxation as well as the Irrigation and Public Health Departments to start speedy recovery of taxes and water tariff. He said it had been observed that the pace of recovery was very slow. He also advised both departments to follow and act on the analogy of the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board while dealing with defaulters. The Chairman asked the district officials to inspect the field activities and monitor their subordinate offices regarding the ongoing development schemes of the government. He impressed upon the officials to hold monthly meetings and include the audit report of the development schemes in their agenda so that these schemes could be implemented effectively. Ravi directed the Chamba Deputy Commissioner to hold an urgent meeting of the district officials to analyse the follow-up of this meeting of the committee. He also took an exception to the slow pace on the ongoing construction work of the sewerage scheme in the town. |
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Adopt agriculture, horticulture as profession, farmers told
Bilaspur, September 8 This call was given by Himachal Agriculture and Energy Minister Sujan Singh Pathania while addressing as chief guest a largely attended concluding function of the four-day Pashu Mandi and Kisan Vikas Mela at Jukhala, 30 km from here, Friday evening. Pathania said youth should not run after white-collar jobs as these were not available now, but should take full advantage of their education, training and energy and adopt agriculture and horticulture as a profession. He said youth could employ modern techniques for getting good income through these professions now. The Agriculture Minister exhorted farmers to go in for the production of papaya which could prove to be a money spinner for them, apart from growing off-season vegetables and flowers. He cautioned them against middlemen who deprived them of most of their hard earned money. He congratulated farmers of the Jukhala valley for their being ahead in agriculture, horticulture and cattle breeding. Ram Lal Thakur, Chairman, state Planning Development and 20-Point Implementation Committee, said the government would soon make a provision of irrigation water in the remaing eight villages of this area, making it as one of the few most fertile areas of the state. Mela Committee Chairman and Zila Parishad member Babu Ram Thakur also addressed the function. |
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Decision to rationalise govt staff hailed
Kangra, September 8 Narender Sharma and Vinod Choudhary, spokespersons of the association, said the timely decision of the Chief Minister would benefit schools lacking teaching staff in tribal, remote and backward areas of the state. They said all the posts of trained graduate teachers (TGTs) deployed under the SSA as block resource centre coordinators in each education block of the state should be rationalised on a priority basis and such TGTs be repatriated to schools to meet shortage of teachers at secondary-level schools. They urged the Chief Minister to hand over the complete control and monitoring of SSA and RMSA activities to school principals at block headquarters so that the projects could be directed in the right perspective by competent and senior school cadre principals. Taking cognisance of the demand of certain categories of teachers, who were not yet regularised, the association also urged the Chief Minister not to relax teacher eligibility test (TET) for any category of teachers in government schools. |
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Sukhu seeks foreign trade institute for state
Shimla, September 8 He also took up the problems of fruit growers with Anand Sharma and underlined the need to raise the import duty on apple to protect the interests of local producers and ensure remunerative returns to them. Growers were suffering huge losses due to import of apples from China, New Zealand and other countries of the world. The state Congress chief said Himachal was known as the apple state of the country and it provided livelihood to lakhs of people associated with the apple industry. He urged Sharma to help the Himachal Pradesh Horticulture Produce, Marketing and Processing Corporation (HPMC) in creating required infrastructure, particularly compressed atmospheric (CA) stores, to ensure proper storage of apple and other perishable produce. He also urged the Union minster to help the state set up three or four fruit-processing plants along with a network of refrigerated vehicles in the state to provide better transportation facilities for the crop during the season. |
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Cong leaders sheltering mining mafia: Satti
Hamirpur, September 8 Talking to mediapersons here on Thursday, he said, “The present government has become a government of inquiries and is pressurising the investigating agencies to register false cases against its political adversaries instead of carrying development works.” Targeting the Congress leaders, the BJP president said, “Today, the mining mafia is ruling the roost and certain Congress leaders are allegedly sheltering it. Even the Chief Minister had admitted in the HP Assembly that certain Congress leaders were sheltering the mining mafia.” Satti also accused the state government of effecting large-scale transfers of officers and state government employees, drawing attention of the state high court towards the matter and forcing the CM to issue a statement in the media in this connection. |
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Gaddi leaders seek BJP ticket from Kangra
Nurpur, September 8 Sardari Lal, coordinator, Gaddi Development Parishad, said the meeting was convened to support the candidature of Trilok Kapoor, young Gaddi leader and former chairperson of the State Wool Federation for the BJP, in the Lok Sabha poll from the Kangra parliamentary constituency. The community lamented the fact that the Gaddis were being deprived of their representation in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha by national political parties. The leaders also said the Gaddi community had been playing an important role in deciding the fate of political parties in the elections in 12 out of 17 Assembly segments in Kangra, but none of the parties had ever thought about their representation in Parliament. They also rued the apathy of the ruling Congress in rendering requisite representation to the community in the government. |
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BJP blames Cong for inflation, unemployment
Chamba, September 8 A memorandum in this regard was submitted to the state Governor through the local administration by a deputation of district BJP activists led by Himachal Pradesh BJP Scheduled Castes Morcha vice-president Jai Singh here on Wednesday. The activists said the government had failed to supply sugar to the ration depots for the past several months. Jai Singh addressed the party workers and said the Congress government had failed to take stern measures to curb price rise. “Unemployment was rampant among the youth and they were not being paid the unemployment allowance as promised by the state Congress government in its election manifesto,” said Jai Singh. |
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‘Government committed to welfare of freedom fighters’
He thanked Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh for his sympathetic attention towards the welfare of freedom fighters and
their wards. He said now the freedom fighters were being provided the best benefits and incentives, besides due honour and respect at all the functions and celebrations. Rattan said now the need of the hour was to inculcate patriotism amongst the young generation. |
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Sudhir listens to people’s grievances
Dharamsala, September 8 Since he represents the Dharamsala Assembly constituency, it was expected that just people of the local area would come to get their grievances redressed. People were queueing up even before the minister arrived. People had come from as far as Hamirpur and Chamba districts. Expectations of people from Sudhir have increased as he is close to the Chief Minister. |
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Dogra is chairman of Bar Council
Shimla, September 8 Dogra was appointed Advocate General on December 25 last year. He was also elected member of the Bar Council in 1988-93 and 1994-99. He had a stint as president of the Himachal Pradesh High Court Bar Association during 2004-05. He enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council on May 9, 1983. Since then, he had
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Youth told not to indulge in ragging
Kangra September 8 Ashok Kumar of Vivekananda Kendra urged the students to live a holistic life. Dr Anil Chauhan expressed pleasure that the atmosphere of the college had become more academic and hoped that the freshers would move on the footprints of their senior scholars. Earlier, Dr Parveen Sharma elaborated about ragging and its implications. Newly elected president Shailen Guleria, vice-president Patayani Dutt, cultural secretary Kiran Bala Azad, general secretary Tanuja Thakur, finance secretary Virender Kumar, joint secretary Maninder Raizada, sports secretary Preet Thakur and literary secretary Chandan Bhatia were welcomed by Akshay Kumar Sharma, the outgoing SCA president. |
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Lawrence School wins business quiz
Solan, September 8 Vivek High School, Chandigarh, and Welham Boys School, Dehradun, were the first and second runners-up, while Mayo Boy’s College, Ajmer, was the third runner-up in the contest. The first and second consolation prizes were bagged by Carmel Convent, Chandigarh, and Vasant Valley School, New Delhi, respectively. The participating schools included Auckland House Shimla, Dalhousie Hill Top School, Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh, Durga Public School, Solan, Himalayan International School, Loreto Convent Tara Hall, Shimla, Mayo College Boys, Ajmer, Mussoorie International School, Mayo College Girls, Ajmer, St John’s High School, Chandigarh, St Luke’s Senior Secondary School, Solan, St Xaviers Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh, Guru Nanak Public School, Chandigarh, Rayan International School, Chandigarh, Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior, St Edward School, Shimla, Vasant Valley School, Delhi, Vivek High School, Chandigarh, Welham Boys School, Dehradun, Welham Girls School, Dehradun, and the host school. Anurag Krishna was declared the quiz master. |
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Self-help groups honoured
Mandi, September 8 At a function organised by the Mandi Saksharta and Jan Vikas Samiti, an NGO, to observe International Literacy Day, as many as 300 members of SHGs pledged to make Mandi district open-defecation free by December under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. The Deputy Commissioner gave away the first prize to Chauntra block, the second prize to Dharampur block and the third prize to Karsog block. SHGs members Sarita Devi, Mani Ram, Pratap Singh, and Labh Singh were honoured for being the best cluster coordinators.
Laxmi Devi (Chauntra), Jagriti (Sundernagar), Shagun (Balh), Jagriti (Drang) and Naina (Gohar), Jagriti (Gopalpur), Jalapa (Dharampur), Devi Saiti (Seraj), Siva (Nihari), Vijay (Karsog) and others were also honoured for doing a good job in village development. |
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PK Dhumal misleading people: Cong
Bilaspur, September 8 The MLA was speaking as the chief guest at the concluding function of a district-level “Inspire Award School Science Mode Exhibition” at Government Girls Senior Secondary School here last evening. He said both Dhumal and Anurag had been “trying to mislead people” by repeatedly declaring that such a college had been sanctioned by the Centre and the previous government had allotted land for the project. He alleged that no land was ever allotted for the college at Bandla by the previous government. He regretted the fact that even government schools teachers were sending their wards to private schools. He said he would take up the issue in the Assembly and force the government to ensure that all the public representatives, government officials and
employees were made to send their children to government schools. |
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Pensioners of HPRTC stage protest
Dharamsala, September 8 They said a proper policy should be adopted for the pensioners of the HPRTC so that retired employees could get their due in time. Minister for Transport GS Bali said it was surprising that though he was present in Dharamsala on Thursday, none of the protesting pensioners had met him. He said despite the precarious financial condition of the HPRTC, pensioners' dues, including medical bills till last month, had been cleared. "I am sympathetic towards the problems of pensioners and these will be redressed," he said. |
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Government to spend Rs 3,836 crore on education
Bilaspur, September 8 This was stated by Chief Parliamentary Secretary (Forests) Rajesh Dharmani during a function at Government Senior Secondary School at Gaaliyan, about 50 km from Bilaspur, Friday evening. Dharmani said Rs 3.11 crore would be spent on the construction of Maatda-Sunali link road, Rs 7 lakh for the construction of a library, Rs 5 lakh on an arts and crafts building and Rs 2.25 lakh on a
badminton court at the Gaaliyan school. Rajesh Dharmani directed Public Work Department officials to immediately repair all roads in
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Jukhala valley to have vegetable market
Bilaspur, September 8 This was stated by Ram Lal
Thakur, Chairman, state Planning Development and 20-Point Programme Implementation Committee, while addressing a large gathering on the inauguration of a four-day Davin Ghati Pashu Mandi and Kisan Vikas Mela at
Jukhala, 28 km from here, on Tuesday. Ram Lal said this area had also earned a name in milk production, agriculture production and rearing of the best breed of cattle, and that is why the state government had taken a number of projects for promoting farmer-oriented activities here. He said a Rs 7.50-crore college building had been constructed, the status of the Primary Health Centre raised and a huge new building made and a DIET centre opened and provided with all facilities of a building and hostels. A comprehensive irrigation scheme, a first of its kind in the state, had also been sanctioned for this area, he said. |
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Grandparents’ Day celebrated
Kangra, September 8 The grandparents present shared their experiences with the audience. Students also played games like “search the coin”, “light the candle”, “musical chairs” etc. Winners received prizes from special guest Veena Soni. School Principal Sumita Soni presented a vote
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Sundernagar village gets contaminated water
Sundernagar, September 8 Villagers said they had complained to officials of the Irrigation and Public Health Department several times, but no one from the department had bothered to solve their problem. |
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Eco-friendly mining policy demanded
Palampur, September 8 They held meetings and urged the government to come out with a new mining policy within 15 days, failing which they would hand over their tractor-trailers to tehsildars and Subdivisional Magistrates (SDMs) in protest. A delegation of their union headed by president Vikas Guleria called on SDM Bhupinder Attari here on Friday and submitted a memorandum, urging him to forward it to the state government. They told the SDM that they were against illegal mining and ready to pay royalty fixed by the government. They said over 300 of them would be rendered jobless in Palampur if mining was not allowed. Owners of tractor-trailers of the Changar area held a meeting at Dheera, 20 km from here. They submitted a memorandum to the Dheera tehsildar, demanding an eco-friendly mining policy.
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Leopard fear grips parts of Bilaspur
Bilaspur, September 8 According to reports, a leopard pounced upon Gyan Chand of Amarpur village near here when he came out of his house last night. Gyan said he had a narrow escape. Villagers said a leopard had been found roaming around in the village quite often and it was dangerous to go out during night hours. In another incident, a leopard killed the calf of Nahar Singh of Dharotti village in Barthin gram panchayat. Nahar said he and other family members rushed to the cowshed when they heard some noise at night and found
a leopard carrying away the calf. Hearing his cries for help, several neighbours rushed to the spot, which scared
the animal away.
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Holy mace to reach Manimahesh lake on Sept 12
Chamba, September 8 It will reach the lake on September 12 for a holy dip. Sadhus and pilgrims will start their return journey the same day after having a darshan of the Kailash mountain, the abode of Lord Shiva. Sadhus of the local Dashnam Akhada, Chamba Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kadam Sandeep Vasant, district officers and locals accompanied the chhari, led by the insignia of Manimahesh and the trishul of Lord Shiva, along with Home Guards and local bands. “The district administration has made all possible arrangements for pilgrims en route,” the DC said. Set in the snow-clad Bharmour tribal valley of Chamba district, the Manimahesh lake is about 214 km from
Pathankot.
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