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Mothers to be encouraged to send their kids to school
Rechristen Mayor’s post as Mahapaur,
Proposals to rename MNA post, raise financial powers with govt
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Orphaned siblings denied justice
Dispose of forestland transfer cases swiftly, DM tells officials
Revered spiritual gurus Shri Shri Ravi Shankar and Swami Chidanand Muni at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Haridwar on Saturday. Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaur
Action sought in Brigadier, wife assault case
3 held for bid to dupe shopkeeper
PNB Prerna distributes tricycles to differently-abled
A differently-abled person gets a tricycle at a function organised by the PNB Prerna in Dehradun on Saturday. A Tribune photograph
Nehrugram soccer team win in nail-biting contest
Players vie for the ball during a match in the Jaideep Bhandari Memorial Football Tournament at Nehrugram in Dehradun on Saturday. A Tribune photograph
Diploma engineers to launch agitation
Anganwari workers to take out rally on Oct 28
DIT cultural fest concludes
Inter-class debate held
Teacher swindles school's money, sacked
Saurabh Khali declared best debater
Web-designing contest
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Mothers to be encouraged to send their kids to school
Dehradun, October 26 Come November, the Department of School Education will launch a drive that will motivate mothers to become the harbinger of change. “It is the mother who is the first teacher of a child. But once the child starts going to school this relationship snaps, especially among rural folks and economically weaker sections. Beginning November, we will launch a special drive in slums and other areas to motivate mothers to take interest in sending their children to school,” said Radhikha Jha, Project Director, Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan. Already, the department under the ‘Sapno Ki Udaan’ programme is running schools on wheels in Udham Singh Nagar, Nainital, Haridwar and Dehradun districts. Vans with teachers and study material provide education to children living in slums or to children of migratory labourers who are unable to go to regular schools. After three months of learning, these children are ready for formal schooling. “But many a time these children drop out of regular schools and it is here that we feel that mothers can play a role in ensuring they continue with their education. Our educators will engage mothers and tell them to actively participate in the progress of their wards. Films and posters will be prepared. A budget of Rs 1.5 crore has been allocated for the campaign,” said Jha. Hence, after the end of the classes, the schools on wheels will be engaged in spreading awareness among parents, especially mothers in all blocks of the
selected districts. Further, in order to reward mothers for their efforts, the Department of School Education will also issue special work books, carrying a word of
appreciation for mothers whose children perform well in the schools. “This felicitation of mothers will be extended to the entire elementary education,” she said.
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Rechristen Mayor’s post as Mahapaur, says
Chamoli
Dehradun, October 26 He emphasised on providing additional workforce, employees and officials at various levels to the DMC in view of increased responsibilities. He said, “The DMC was formed on December 9, 1998. Since then, the DMC area has been expanded from 32 km to 64.88 km. After Dehradun was made provisional capital, work load on the DMC too increased. With no new recruitment having taken place after half the retirement of old employees over the years, the situation has become quite critical. There is only one senior health officer, one chief sanitation inspector and one sanitation inspector. To manage all areas, we require at least four chief sanitary inspectors and eight sanitary inspectors.” He said most of the DMC land had been encroached upon by land mafia and only one patwari could not manage all records. He also demanded from the govt the appointment of a
Tehsildar, a Nayab Tehsildar and other junior staff. On the collection of house tax, he said the DMC had only one tax inspector. He demanded the appointment of four tax inspectors and 20 land supervisors. He drew the government's attention towards unrevised property tax. “Property tax imposed by the DMC has not been revised since 1959. It was to be updated and brought under the Property Tax Regulations in 2000. However, the process continues to be stalled. The DMC is charging tax from only 5,2000 houses whereas it has 1,20,000 houses under its domain. Due to this, it is incurring a loss of nearly Rs 10 crore every year.” He said the state government had decided that new tax regulation would not be guided by the UP MC Act but by the prevalent system and provisions of the
DMC. Chamoli asked the government to give ownership right to slum dwellers living in the DMC area to augment revenue source for the corporation. Other demands
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Proposals to rename MNA post, raise financial powers with govt
Dehradun, October 26 Urban Development Minister Preetam Panwar said, “The DMC is still being governed by the Uttar Pradesh Municipal Act, 1959, while Uttar Pradesh has amended its Act and renamed the post of MNA as Municipal Commissioner. However, we are still following the age old Act. The demand for the change in the nomenclature of the post was placed before me, which I accepted. I have directed officials to forward the proposal to the state government.” Hence, it has been a long-standing demand to rename the MNA post as Municipal Commissioner. With this change, the designation of Sahayak Mukhya Nagar Adhikari and UP Nagar Adhikari too will be changed. These will then be known as Additional Municipal Commissioner and Deputy Municipal Commissioner. With regard to increasing financial powers of the MNA and the DMC Board, MNA Ashok Kumar said, “At present the MNA has limited powers to clear proposals worth up to Rs 52,000, while Uttar Pradesh amended this provision and increased the MNA’s financial powers to Rs 10 lakh. Similarly, the DMC board can clear proposals worth Rs 10 lakh. Here, too, we have appealed to increase the limit. The Urban Development Minister has
accepted the proposal. These proposals will be sent to the state government for approval.”
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Orphaned siblings denied justice
Dehradun, October 26 After 17 years, Joginder and Seeta came back to Dehradun, hoping that they have their own house here. But, they got devastated after seeing that somebody else had constructed a house on their land. “We have been going from pillar to post to seek justice but, Ghanshyam who is a teacher at Sun Sign School, continued the illegal construction on the land which originally belongs to Shyam Singh,” said Paster Dass, who had been helping both the children and associated with the social service organisation. "We went to all the authorities but have been denied justice till date. Ghanshyam has caused immense mental trauma to Shyam Singh's children, who are also his legal heirs," added Paster Dass. “It is a civil matter and the District Magistrate has an authority to decide whether the land belongs to Shyam Singh or somebody else. And once it is finalised after an enquiry report from the patwari, the District Magistrate would order that the land belongs to Shyam Singh and only then the police would get involved and take action against the person who has illegally occupied the land," said SP City.
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Dispose of forestland transfer cases swiftly, DM tells officials
Dehradun, October 26 The District Magistrate directed the SDMs of Chakrata, Kalsi, Rishikesh, Vikasnagar and Mussoorie as well as officials of the Forest Department and the PWD to take all land transfer cases seriously and hold meeting once a month in order to dispose of the cases on time so that other departments could proceed on the proposals. He instructed the organiser to invite all departments to the next meeting. “As soon as the Forest Department receives any project of land transfer, it must work quickly. The officials must find out at what stage documents were held up and what action has been taken on the matter. If anybody faces a problem at any level, he or she can inform me so that I could take the needful action ,” he added. The meeting was attended by ADM Harak Singh Rawat, Mohan Singh Bernia, SDM, Chakrata, Himalaya Singh Martoliya, SDM, Rishikesh, district forest officers of Dehradun, Kalsi, Chakrata and
PWD officer.
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Ravi Shankar, Chidanand to help disaster-hit
Haridwar, October 26 Besides funding various social rehabilitation projects, they will also pitch in for alternative sources of employment generation so that tourism does not get linked with pilgrimage. Both saints met in Rishikesh today and expressed their support to the flash flood-affected families. Both dwelled on various measures, specific areas, aspects and related issues in providing relief aid and rehabilitation im the affected districts. Shri Ravi Shankar put forth the idea of eco tourism and green tourism in the state. He said there was a need to make local people aware about these tow aspects, which would be better alternatives for their livelihood. Swami Chidanand said there was a need to stop the talented youth from migrating to other states by providing basic and necessary employment opportunities here. In the Kedarnath valley area Swami Chidanand also wants to open a school modelled on gurukul education system so that local children could avail of education facilities there itself. They also stressed on cleaning the Ganga, protection of cows and women empowerment. Slogan of "Himalaya bachao, beti bachao. Ganga-Gau-Gauri ki raksha karo" was also pronounced on the occasion.
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Action sought in Brigadier, wife assault case
Dehradun, October 26 On October 17, Neelam Dangwal asked Suraj Negi, an employee of the company managing the society, to switch on the air condition of the gym, to which Suraj allegedly refused and started arguing with her. Thereafter, Neelam’s husband intervened and asked Suraj to refrain from using abusive language but he allegedly slapped Neelam and caught hold of her husband as well. Neelam filed an FIR at the Rajpur Police Station on October 17. Brigadier SD Dangwal said, “My wife was slapped by the employee of Conscient Infrastructure Private Limited, the developer of the society, and I was threatened of dire consequences. Even after filing the FIR, we are still waiting for the action.” When contacted, Sub-inspector, M Semwal, told The Tribune, “Acting on the FIR we arrested the accused. He was presented before the court and was granted bail.”
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3 held for bid to dupe shopkeeper
Dehradun, October 26 The police reached the shop and took the trio to police station for questioning. The policemen recovered 210 ATM cards from their possession. Later, a police team reached their rooms in Vikasnagar and found one magnetic strip reader and writer and a dongle. According to the police, they used to go to shops and flaunt their richness by offering ATM cards to shopkeepers. They used to buy valuable items by using fake ATM cards. The cards were allegedly made by them using a magnetic strip reader and writer, which they had bought for Rs 20,000. The police is interrogating them.
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PNB Prerna distributes tricycles to differently-abled
Dehradun, October 26 The tricycles were distributed by Ila Pangtey, president, PNB
Prerna. She said it was the responsibility of every member of the society to help
differently-abled persons. Promil Aneja, president, PNB Prerna, Dehradun unit, informed that the Punjab National Bank helped the poor people and the weaker sections of the society, through a unique initiative called PNB Prerna and they would continue such activities in the future also.
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Nehrugram soccer team win in nail-biting contest
Dehradun October 26 Nehrugram was on offensive at the beginning of the match. Akash of Nehrugram opened the goal tally by hitting the net in the 13th minute of the match. In the second half, Sagar of Nehrugram gave a two-goal lead to his team by scoring a goal in the 58th minute. Trailing 2-0, Dehra Eleven was on the backfoot when Ashok Rana's goal in the 65th minute gave them a ray of hope. Filled with confidence, Ashok Rana levelled the score by scoring another goal in the 69th minute. The match reached the tiebreaker stage as both the teams scored two goals each. During the tiebreaker, Nehrugram won the match 3-1. Vishal, Himanshu and Akash scored the goals for Nehrugram. Ayush Bist scored the lone goal for Dehra Eleven.
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Diploma engineers to launch agitation
Dehradun, October 26 General secretary of the Uttarakhand Diploma Engineers Association Arun Rawat said despite several meetings with government officials in the past regarding enhancing the grade pay from Rs 4,200 to Rs 4,600 for senior engineers and 85 per cent promotions for them after a gap of three years, besides doing away with the practice of conducting examinations for promotions the government had failed to meet any of these. "These demands were accepted in principle by the government during our meeting on September 17 but it had not issued any order in this regard," said Rawat. He added the association would meet on October 28 to chalk out a strategy for the agitation.
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Dehradun, October 26
Nehrugram Football Club won the inaugural match of the 3rd Jaideep Bhandari Memorial Football Tournament after defeating Dehra Eleven Football Club in a close encounter.
Nehrugram was on offensive at the beginning of the match. Akash of Nehrugram opened the goal tally by hitting the net in the 13th minute of the match. In the second half, Sagar of Nehrugram gave a two-goal lead to his team by scoring a goal in the 58th minute.
