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Cabinet approves OBC status for three Uttarkashi blocks
Sacked cops demand meeting with Pranab, hold demonstration
Contractual power staff threatens indefinite strike
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Sri Lankan newsmen visit Darbar Sahib in Doon
Goons beat up couple in Doon
DM’s order on bank accounts, Aadhar cards
Bridge across river Kali within a week: DM
Anganwari workers’ march to CM’s residence today
Mahindra and Mahindra sets up co-branded lab at UPES
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Cabinet approves OBC status for three Uttarkashi blocks
Dehradun, October 18 While announcing the decision after the Cabinet meeting today, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said there was a demand to extend OBC status to the remaining blocks and the Cabinet had given its approval extending the OBC status to the Bhatwari, Dunda and Chinyalisuri blocks of Uttarkashi. He said that the people who had been occupying land under the Category 4, Government Grants Act and Asami Patta under Zamandari Abolition and Land Reforms Act (ZLRA). ''Around 60,000 families would benefit, mostly comprising members belonging to SC, ST, OBC and general categories in Udham Singh Nagar, Nainital, Haridwar and Dehradun,'' he said. He said that the government had also constituted a sub committee comprising senior ministers who would also look into the issues pertaining to the land occupied under Asami Patta in the hilly areas and present its report for regularisation during the forthcoming Cabinet meeting slated for November 7. Further, the Cabinet today also approved to hike the honorarium for the employees working under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) from Rs
3,500 to Rs 7,500 and has decided to give preference to the employees who have been demanding
regularisation. ''We have asked the Department of Rural Development to immediately start the process of recruitment wherein these workers would get preference,'' he said. Similarly, the departments have also been asked to fast track the filling of backlog vacancies on posts reserved for SC and ST
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Sacked cops demand meeting with Pranab, hold demonstration
Dehradun, October 18 The sacked policemen marched towards the police headquarters and the Secretariat here. The police had to struggle to control them. The protesting policemen threatened to commit suicide in case their demand for a meeting with the President was not met. The services of 250 constables were terminated by the police department for the reason that they filled application forms for the posts of constable from two places in year 2010. Since then they had been holding protests in the state capital demanding restoration of their services. A delegation of the sacked policemen had met Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna a few months ago. |
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Contractual power staff threatens indefinite strike
Dehradun October 18 The contractual employees are infuriated that the state government did not act on its promise of regularising their service and granting them dearness allowance (DA) twice in a year. With 3,000 contractual employees going on strike, the work in the UPCL, Power Transmission Corporation of Uttarakhand Limited (PTCUL) and Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited (UJVNL) would be largely affected. Around 2,200 of these 3,000 employees are working in the UPCL only. President of the union Yogender Vishal held a meeting with the representatives of the employees, who had come from all over the state, in the city today. Vishal later told mediapersons that “At a tri-partite meeting on March 14 this year, MLA, Narender Nagar, Subhodh Uniyal as a representative of the Chief Minister, Secretary, Power, Vijay Pal Singh Sajwan and Managing Directors of all three power corporations had agreed to give DA twice in a year to the employees and start the process of regularising their services alongside. We reminded the managements of the UPCL and the UJVNL of their promises subsequently at meetings on September 23 and 24 and they once again assured us of immediate positive action. However, a month has passed but nothing has happened.” Vishal said he hoped that the state government would pay heed to their ultimatum and take steps to fulfil their demands before October 27. He added the Power Department deducted their leaves for their 14-day strike last time. It also hired persons from outside. He said, “It is understandable that the services of such a large workforce cannot be regularised in one go. Hence, we have demanded that first we should be disassociated from UPNAL agency and absorbed in the Power department. Second, those who have completed three years of service should be made permanent employees. Vishal said the corporations were deliberately delaying a decision on the issues. “First the managements of the power corporations asked us to wait because of the devastation caused by the natural disaster. Now, they are trying to delay the issues till the model code of conduct come into force in the state in the wake of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.” Vice president of the union Vinod Kavi said, “Now, we will not tolerate double speak of the corporation managements as well as of the state government. While permanent employees get DA when inflation rises, the contractual employees get nothing. This is unfair.” General secretary of the union Manoj Pant said the workers never wanted to go on strike but they had to resort to it due to the anti-worker policies of the state government.
Main demands
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Khanduri questions delay in Lokayukta Bill
New Delhi, October 18 “Now if the public feels that it has faced any corruption then it can take action under this Bill. The Bill provides a small stipulated time period for investigating cases of corruption. The people will have faith in the system and whoever is involved in corruption will be punished,” he said. The former CM said that the Uttarakhand government should probe the delay in the announcement of the Bill. He added that he became aware of the presidential nod to the Bill after media-persons informed him about it.
“The oath-taking ceremony of the Deputy Lokayukta (of Uttarakhand) was cancelled on Wednesday. And when media-persons inquired about the action, they learnt that the Bill had already been approved by the President about one and a half months ago,” he said. Khanduri asserted that the Uttarakhand Chief Minister, Vijay Bahuguna, should inquire about the person who is responsible for the delay in the announcement of the Bill. “The Uttarakhand government is responsible for this,” he said. On being asked if the Chief Minister could be aware of the delay, Khanduri said, “The Chief Minister knows everything.” Trying to take credit for the Bill, Khanduri claimed that after the Uttarakhand Assembly passed the Bill in 2011 when he was the Chief Minister, it was sent to the then President Pratibha Patil through the Union Home Ministry for her approval. However, there was no reply even after sending several reminders to the Principal Secretary and Secretary of the Home Ministry.
“I completed my tenure as the Chief Minister on March 13, 2012, and still there was no reply. In June of that year, I again wrote to President Pratibha Patil to approve the Bill, but still there was no reply. And now I am finally happy that the Bill has been passed by the incumbent President Pranab Mukherjee,” he said. |
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Sri Lankan newsmen visit Darbar Sahib in Doon
Dehradun, October 18 Coordinator Vijay Kumar Nautiyal told the foreign delegation of its historic background. The foreigners were impressed with the art work over the walls of Shri Darbar Sahib.The Sri Lankan group leader Mudhitha Kariakarawa and secretary general Ashok Rawat of State Union of Indian Federation of Working Journalists informed that this delegation of Sri Lankan journalists had come to India to participate in a summit at Rishikesh on October 19. — TNS
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Goons beat up couple in Doon
Dehradun, October 18 The SSP directed the Rajpur police station officials to take necessary steps in the case. Reportedly, the victim Rajkumar Sahni gave Rs 5,500 to Shamshudin and Budh for getting an electricity connection in his house. Both of them took the money but failed to get the electricity connection installed. Rajkumar Sahni started asking them to return the money. They refused to return the money and thrashed Rajkumar and his wife today and even damaged their house. Rajkumar and his wife were injured in the incident.
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DM’s order on bank accounts, Aadhar cards
Pithoragarh, October 18 Chaudhary today chaired a meeting of the officials concerned on the implementation of the scheme in the district from next year. He said seven main Central government schemes had been identified for the direct subsidy transfer scheme in the district in the first phase. Aadhar cards and bank accounts of the beneficiaries were necessary for the scheme. “LPG consumers will be covered under the scheme in the district in the second phase from January next year,” he said. The officials informed the District Magistrate that over 1,700 Aadhar cards had been made in the district till June and more beneficiaries were being covered under the scheme for making Aadhar cards. The subsidy on LPG cylinders was scheduled to be transferred to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries from January next year. Assistant Director General of the scheme Ashutosh Ojha said the direct benefits of several schemes had been given to over 1.25 crore beneficiaries in different part of the country. |
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Bridge across river Kali within a week: DM
Pithoragarh, October 18 The decision to construct a temporary bridge over the river bordering Nepal at this part, has been taken keeping the traditional Jauljibi fair in mind which is due to commence in mid-November. Link with Nepal during the fair is essential as the fair as well as the Jauljibi market depend on the clients from Nepal, said the DM. The bridge, which was washed away on June 18 this year due to flash floods, is one of the five bridges over the river. The construction of the bridge will begin from Nepal side as well as the wooden pieces required for the bridge at Nepal side have reached there, said the DM. Business activities in the Indian town of Jauljibi remained paralysed after the washing away of the bridge as the market and local educational institutions were mostly depended on the clients and students from Nepal. We have been demanding continuously right from the day, to construct the bridge as without clients from Nepal, our existence is impossible in this place, said Leela Bangyal, a social worker in Jauljibi town. |
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Anganwari workers’ march to CM’s residence today
Dehradun, October 18 They have been staging a chain fast in front of Hindi Bhavan since October 15. The protesting anganwari workers said they would end the stir only after a written assurance with regard to the fulfilment of their demands was issued. Jyoti Pandey, Uma Pradhan, Sushila Khatri, Rekha Rawat and Rajni Upreti participated in today's chain fast. |
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Mahindra and Mahindra sets up co-branded lab at UPES
Dehradun, October 18 Arun Dhand, Director, UPES, informed that UPES offered highly specialised and industry aligned courses for the automobile sector. Mahindra and Mahindra is also a regular annual recruiter of UPES students. This year also they have given placement offers to several students of UPES pursuing their B.Tech in automotive design and electronics engineering streams. More than 50 students of UPES have been placed in Mahindra and Mahindra and their allied group of companies over the years and are making worthy contributions already. The setting up of this co-branded laboratory is a much needed step in the direction of increasing the industry-academia interface. The innovation lab is set with an endowment of latest and contemporary automobile parts, assemblies and sub-assemblies provided by Mahindra and Mahindra, which include a complete CRDi engine, a turbocharger, a rear axle assembly, a catalytic convertor, a gear-box assembly, suspension assembly and various other sub-assemblies. Explaining the benefits which will accrue to the students, Dhand informed that students will get an insight into how engines based on the CRDi technology (Common Rile Direct injection) work, CRDi engines are now being used by almost all SUVs manufacturers. Students will get to learn how the turbo charger maintains balance of the fuel-air mixture by supplying additional air to the extra fuel which is drawn by the engine when the vehicle is running under heavy loadings. They will be able to get a better understanding of how the catalytic converter works, which helps in keeping the environment safe by converting the highly toxic carbon monoxide (CO) & nitrous monoxide (NO) gases to carbon dioxide (CO2)and nitrogen-di-oxide. Narayan Khatri , PS Ranjit and Pankaj Sharma of the Department of Automotive Engineering championed the setting up of this state of the art facility in UPES under the able guidance of Mukesh Saxena. Elaborating the benefits of the equipment and availability of the state-of-the-art UPES-Mahindra Igniters’ Innovation lab, Kamal Bansal, Director of College of Engineering, informed that the students of automotive design engineering and also electronic engineering will be able to correlate the fundamentals learnt with practical in house training . The campus Director, Srihari, informed that the students would also get a distinct advantage in doing their minor and major projects. Alka Madan, Associate Director of Career Services in UPES thanked the company officials for their patronage and continued support to UPES. Amol Deshpande, Deputy Manager, and Jaspreet Mehta, Assistant Manager, HR, conducted the campus recruitment process and appreciated the preparedness of students against the trying standards of M&M. Mohit Gupta, Assistant Director, Career Services at UPES, congratulated the students who were selected by M&M during this year's recruitment drive. |
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Sacked policemen, who have been demanding restoration of their services, here today had a heated argument with the police.
In support of their demand for better emoluments, anganwari workers will stage a march to the residence Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna in Dehradun tomorrow.
They have been staging a chain fast in front of Hindi Bhavan since October 15.
