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Show-cause notice to HPCA
Centre to mull over Class V, VIII exams
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Truckers stop clinker supply to Ambuja’s Nalagarh plant
Notice served on Mandi cricket body
Dhumal refutes PAN card charges
‘Anurag, Arun diverting attention from misdeeds’
Charges are baseless: MLAs
Centre nod to 800 ITS-enabled buses for state
Need for regular eye check-up stressed
Dr Ramesh Bharti, Officiating Principal, DRPGMC, Tanda, gives away prizes to winners on World Sight Day in the college on Thursday. Photo: Ashok Raina
Saurabh Kalia’s father shocked over India’s stand
HP Chief Secy suffers brain haemorrhage
District-level School Boys Tournament ends
Thieves take away jewellery worth Rs 4 lakh 2 temple trust workers suspended Rs 35 lakh for fencing of Khajjiar lake One held for issuing fake certificates Circuit Bench to function at Nurpur from Oct 14 Thunderstorm damages paddy crop in
Chamba 10,000 visit Bhalei temple Flights cancelled
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Registrar reserves order on
jurisdiction
Pratibha Chauhan/TNS
Shimla, October 10 Having given the HPCA one-week time on October 3 for oral hearing, HPCA counsels, former Advocate-General RS Bawa and Vikrant Thakur, pleaded the case before the registrar. The oral hearing lasted for over two hours as the HPCA submitted 25-page written arguments along with 10 Supreme Court judgments. “The HPCA counsels deposed before me and it is after going through their reply that I will get back to them,” confirmed Nazeem. Sources said the registrar could either give the final order or seek some more documents from the HPCA. The High Court has already given the HPCA 10-day time from the date of final service of the order of the Registrar of Societies to seek further legal recourse. Vishal Marwah, secretary of the HPCA, had challenged the jurisdiction of the Registrar of Society by stating that no action could be taken against it under the Societies Act as it was governed by the Companies Act, 1956, a Central enactment and special law governing the existence of the company. The HPCA had been issued a show-cause notice by Nazeem on September 7 for which hearing was held on October 1 and 3. The HPCA has sought the withdrawal of the notice by stating that this was without jurisdiction as “they are a company”. “The state government has been accepting money from us as we paid Rs 98.55 lakh last year from the HPCA and Rs 4.45 crore as taxes,” the HPCA contended. It has already alleged that the action against it has been initiated at the behest of political executives as an afterthought and a mala-fide and oblique way to usurp the jurisdiction over a company and to control its affairs. The HPCA has also pointed out that the action of the registrar in writing to the BCCI on September 25 not only reflects the malicious motive, but is also aimed at tarnishing the image of the company. They pointed out that the HPCA after obtaining permission from the BCCI on September 19, 2011, converted itself into a non-profit company. The HPCA accused the Registrar of being biased.
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Centre to mull over Class V, VIII exams
Shimla, October 10 Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh had also written to the Union Human Resource Minister to review the decision to scrap the board examinations at the primary and upper primary levels and drew his attention to the sharp decline in levels of learning. The issue was reviewed at a high-level meeting last week at the Centre and the matter for amending the RTE for re-introduction of the examinations was referred to a committee. Besides Himachal, many other states had also raised the issue and urged the Centre to check the “huge fall” in standards of education at the elementary level by amending the Act. The negative impact of scrapping of the exams and introduction of CCE became evident from the shocking performance of the students who appeared for the scholarship examination under the Medhavi Chhtravriti Yojana last year. Out of 13,777 students, over 90 per cent failed to secure 35 per cent marks. The performance was worst in environmental science with 96 per cent of students got grade E, followed by mathematics (94 per cent) and English (92 per cent). The latest assessment test conducted as part of the baseline survey also brought out a grim scenario with a failure rate of over 60 per cent. The overall average achievement of 5.80 lakh students from Class II to VIII was a dismal 36 per cent which justified the state’s concern and call a review of the decision to scrap the external board examinations for V and
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Shortage of land hits industry in Una, Kangra
Dharamsala, October 10 Rakesh Chawla, vice-president of BBT industrial association and owner of Sukhjit Agro Industries in Tahliwal industrial area, while talking to The Tribune, said in Una district, the state government had issued notifications where the industries could come up but the investors were asked to buy land on their own from the private land owners. The problem in Himachal is that the land holding of people are small. In buying a sizable chunk of land for setting up the industry, a person had to deal with 20 to 30 people and many of them were unwilling to sell the land. Due to this, the industrialists had to depend on local property dealers who fleece the investors, he said. Sources said due to the failure of the state government to develop planned industrial area, there had been haphazard growth of the industry in many industrial areas as the Thaliwal industrial area. It had resulted in lack of basic infrastructure in industrial areas of Una. Even Cremica that has proposed to develop Food Park in Tahliwal worth Rs 200 crore has to struggle with over 300 land owners to collect the land chunk. It was only after the involvement of Minister for Industries Mukesh Agnihotri that the case for setting up the Food Park has been sent for the Section 118 permission of the Himachal Pradesh Land Tenancy Act to the state
government. Cremica and Nestle are among the biggest industrial units to have come up in Una district. Sources in Nestle, however, told The Tribune that they did not have any plans to expand their operations in Himachal. In Kangra district also, the state government notified industrial areas in Sansarpur Terrace and Damtal located on the Punjab border. However, both notified areas have failed to attract any major industrial investment. SAIL unit that came up in Kandrori of Kangra district has failed to start production as the Army that has its ordinance depot in the area has not given NOC for the
project. Mukesh Agnihotri has now been talking of developing land banks in various areas of the state to develop industrial areas. |
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Truckers stop clinker supply to Ambuja’s Nalagarh plant
Solan, October 10 Trucker unions, including the Solan District Truckers Union, the Baghal Land Losers, the Golden Land Losers and the Arki Darlaghat Mangu Kahlog, had given a united call to suspend transportation of clinker till their demands were met. Since the diesel prices had registered a steep hike in the past several months, the truckers said the company should enhance the freight charges as per the formula worked out unanimously between the truck unions and the company managements. The freight charges were Rs 8.40 per tonne per km and there was a demand to enhance this to about Rs 9.66 since April this year. The truckers were also opposing the practice of allowing overloading of trucks at Nalagarh which carried cement to the neighbouring states while those plying trucks from the Darlaghat plant were strictly directed to carry only nine tonne load. Dinesh Sharma, vice-president, Corporate Affairs, Ambuja Cement, said the issue would soon be sorted out as talks were under way and added that due arrears from April would be given to the truckers. On an average 160 to 200 trucks transported clinker from Darlaghat to Nalagarh every month and the supply depended on the demand of cement to be produced. The Nalagarh plant, therefore, did not face any shortage of clinker though the strike had extended for the second day today. |
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Notice served on Mandi cricket body
Mandi, October 10 The department has tightened its noose around the HPCA and its district body here after it received complaints. The body runs the cricket academy which has enrolled 50 learners for coaching this year. President of the District Cricket Association Ajay Rana, who is also a BJP spokesperson, claimed the government action would ruin the cricket promotion in the state. But his opponents and officials in the department charge that the “body has been making money without paying anything to the sports department for using Paddal stadium for the past five years. The parents of the learners today gathered at the stadium and demanded that the cricket academy should not be closed. The government must make a provision so that their children get coaching. Ajay Rana, who was also present at the meeting, said the district body and HPCA were ready to maintain place once it was allotted to it. The academy was charging Rs 300 per month from each student. But the body had paid nothing to the sports department for using the stadium since 2008, said officials. The department has slapped a notice on the district association. The sports department charges Rs 1,100 per day for using the stadium. As a result, the government has issued show cause notice to the president, saying why the academy should not be closed as it had no permission from the government for using the stadium, said the officials. The sports department has deployed a cricket coach at the stadium. But the students approach the coach deployed by the HPCA here under the promise that “they stand a better chance to play various tournaments if they are enrolled in the cricket academy,” the students said. Earlier, Rana alleged at a press conference that the state government was out to ruin cricket by unleashing the political vendetta against the HPCA.
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Dhumal refutes PAN card charges
Shimla, October 10 Dhumal said it was unfortunate that despite knowing the truth, the ministers had chosen to indulge in mud-slinging, which they must avoid. "Based on the complaint filed by Congress leaders of Himachal before the Prime Minister's Office, the Intelligence Bureau and the Income Tax Department, an inquiry was conducted in which these allegations were found to be untrue," he stated. Town and Country Planning Minister Sudhir Sharma and Excise and Taxation Minister Prakash Chaudhary yesterday issued a statement raising questions over Dhumal having two PAN cards. He said the controversy arose during the Assembly poll in 2007 due to a typing error. The IT Department has already verified that it was due to typing error that the PAN card number was wrongly indicated," he said. He said the ministers must desist from making such misleading and factually incorrect statements. |
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‘Anurag, Arun diverting attention from misdeeds’
Bilaspur, October 10 Talking to mediapersons at the Circuit House here today, Ram Lal said former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal had launched several cases against Virbhadra Singh, but the latter was acquitted by the courts. "If you have done nothing wrong, why should you worry or make such a huge noise about your innocence? Let investigation agencies and courts decide matter," he said. Ram Lal said Anurag and Arun should first reply how Anurag's income had increased to Rs 6 crore during his first and second nomination for the post of MP? Ram Lal Thakur said Anurag should tell how a society was turned into a company and commercial projects started while it first got land allotted under the rules of the society from the government and how he became "double bona fide" of both Punjab and Himachal, first getting allotted petrol pump
in Punjab and then becoming president of the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) in Himachal Pradesh. Ram Lal also wanted Anurag Thakur to state how he had got control of three schools at Shimla, Jalandhar and New Delhi and under what rules. |
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Charges are baseless: MLAs
Kangra, October 10 They said Dhumal and his family had raised the same issues during the Vidhan Sabha elections, but people had rejected the false propaganda of the BJP and voted the Congress to power. They said no other BJP leader, except for the Dhumal family, was resorting to false propaganda against the Chief Minister. |
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Centre nod to 800 ITS-enabled buses for state
New Delhi, October 10 The sanction was given through the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee which held its meeting yesterday in New Delhi. Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath has urged the state government to propose more urban infrastructure projects to his ministry and assured the government that it would be considered on priority, an official release today said. With this sanction, Himachal Pradesh has become the first hill state to be sanctioned buses under the current phase of procurement of buses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
(JNNURM). The Centre will provide financial assistance up to 90 per cent of the total cost of the buses. Out of a total of 10,000 buses to be given to states in the current round, a quota of 2,000 buses has been kept for the hill states. ITS- enabled buses are the state-of-the-art buses with
GPRS, LED displays, CCTVs, etc connected to control centre for proper monitoring. |
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Need for regular eye check-up stressed
Kangra, October 10 Dr Rajiv
Tuli, Professor and Head, Department of Ophthalmology, DRPGMC, gave a presentation for MBBS and nursing students. He highlighted the various ocular disorders and the need for regular eye check-up. Dr Munish
Saroch, spokesman, DRPGMC, said a declamation contest for undergraduate students and a quiz competition for postgraduate students was held. It was attended by Dr Ramesh
Bharti, officiating Principal of the institute, and Heads of the various departments. The Principal gave away prizes to the winners. The quiz competition winners were Dr
Harshita, Dr Gayatri and Dr Snehal. A programme was also held at Rainbow International School at Nagrota Bagwan where Dr Surender Sharma stressed on the students to get their eyes checked on a regular
basis. Urmil Kapoor, Health Educator, briefed the students on steps to be taken for eye safety. Medical experts said after 40 years, eye check-up must be carried out once a year. |
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Saurabh Kalia’s father shocked over India’s stand
Kangra, October 10 Dr Kalia was talking to this correspondent here today. He said on December 6, 2011, Rajeev had written to the Defence Ministry that the Saurabh Kalia issue should be taken up on the international forum as per the Geneva Convention. Dr Kalia said he was informed that the Defence Minister had replied to Rajeev that Capt Saurabh Kalia’s case had to be dealt with Pakistan only as per the Simla Agreement. He said, "It is shocking that after 14 years, we are standing at the same place when the crime was done by Pakistan." He said one could not believe in Pakistan. He said this year, Pakistan had intruded into India's territory more than 80 times. "Was this in the spirit of the Simla agreement? "he asked. He said, "The reply from the government has disheartened me, but our hopes are still alive. We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will take stock of every development”. |
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HP Chief Secy suffers brain haemorrhage
Shimla, October 10 Roy (59), who had been suffering from a severe headache since morning, was brought to IGMC here at 4 pm. He suffered haemorrhage at his residence at 3.30 pm, where he had gone for lunch. With the helicopter of the state government failing to take off from Annandale due to extremely poor visibility, he has been taken to the PGI, Chandigarh, in an 108 ambulance, escorted by a pilot. “He has suffered a haemorrhage due to hypertension and been rushed to the PGI,” said Dr Ramesh Chand, Senior Medical Superintendent, IGMC. Doctors who performed a CT scan on Roy said a clot had been detected which had caused drowsiness and confusional state. — TNS
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District-level School Boys Tournament ends
Bilaspur, October 10 Bambar said those who had won should ensure that they won at state and national levels also. But those who were defeated should take it as a challenge and do better the next time. Principal Kishori Lal Sharma and District Assistant Physical Education Officer Dharam Pal said 389 students players drawn from all parts of the
istrict competed in this four-day tournament. Trophies of basketball, football and handball were won by Kandraur Government Senior Secondary School (GSSS), GSSS Boys and GSSS Kandraur, respectively. GSS Bharadi, GSSS Boys Ghumarwin and GSSS Boys Bilaspur were runners up in these games. In hockey and judo, GSSS Ghumarwin and GSSS Panjgaain were first, while GSSS Bilaspur and GSSS Rishikesh were second. Auhar GSSS lifted the marchpast trophy. |
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World Sight Day, which is observed on second Thursday of every October, was celebrated with this year’s theme "Get your eyes tested" at the Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College
(DRPGMC), Tanda, and Rainbow International School, Nagrota Bagwan, today.
